I would rather have the sound from my neighbour's Mach 1 Coyote Engine piped out my speaker when I'm backing up. Whenever I hear him start up, I go outside just to hear it rumble by.
Why would you disable a safety feature? Have you also removed the seatbelts? Airbags? Disabled the anti-lock brakes?The 'free' PACM method that is used by the powerboost F150 hybrid works on the MME. The forscan value change is from 4 to 0 (zero) (If you have auto 911 dial enabled, it may be a 7 value to 2 value change) - there's a YT vid on it "powerboost speaker silence". It's located in the rear back panel of the vehicle. For those who use their vehicle off road exclusively, you can remove / modify the dump truck beeping. The forscan value change tells the IPC that with a waive of the hand "there is no beeper"
4 screws to remove the scuff plate...
Pop open this rear panel....
Just enough to reach a hand in and get this guy....
Alternatively, this is also the spot to tap into the speaker if you want a volume knob instead of playing at the speaker itself.
OP specified off-road exclusive vehicles. I can think of reasons why you'd want to disable this in the off-road context.
| Backup Warning Chime (BWC) • Driver Beltminder (DB) • Pass BeltMinder (PBM) • Mid Pass Beltminder (MPB) | ||||||||
| 720-01-01 | xxxx | xx*x | xx-- | 0 = | BWC disabled • DB disabled • PBM disabled • MPB disabled | 8 = | BWC enabled • DB disabled • PBM disabled • MPB disabled | |
| 1 = | BWC disabled • DB disabled • PBM disabled • MPB enabled | 9 = | BWC enabled • DB disabled • PBM disabled • MPB enabled | |||||
| 2 = | BWC disabled • DB disabled • PBM enabled • MPB disabled | A = | BWC enabled • DB disabled • PBM enabled • MPB disabled | |||||
| 3 = | BWC disabled • DB disabled • PBM enabled • MPB enabled | B = | BWC enabled • DB disabled • PBM enabled • MPB enabled | |||||
| 4 = | BWC disabled • DB enabled • PBM disabled • MPB disabled | C = | BWC enabled • DB enabled • PBM disabled • MPB disabled | |||||
| 5 = | BWC disabled • DB enabled • PBM disabled • MPB enabled | D = | BWC enabled • DB enabled • PBM disabled • MPB enabled | |||||
| 6 = | BWC disabled • DB enabled • PBM enabled • MPB disabled | E = | BWC enabled • DB enabled • PBM enabled • MPB disabled | |||||
| 7 = | BWC disabled • DB enabled • PBM enabled • MPB enabled | F = | BWC enabled • DB enabled • PBM enabled • MPB enabled |
The Mustang Mach E is not an “off road vehicle” and the methodology proposed is a fairly permanent method, not a method for casual or intermittent use. I think the OP was stretching to rationalize.
Companies put backup beepers on vehicles as a means of defense when one of their morons backs over someone. It doesn't increase safety. Reverse cameras are however safety features. Backup beepers don't magically move someone no more than train horns put a magic forcefield in front of it.
You're misconstruing the definition of off road. I'm not stretching anything, I owe you no rationalization. It's just information, do with it what you will. Backup beeping isn't mandated.
Haven't checked Forscan, but my as-built shows it already disabled. Plus that's in the IPC.
I'm pretty sure the BWC as listed is a device for fleet options across all of the vehicles and doesn't have anything to do with the speaker. That's quite unfortunate that ford decided to put the construction beeper noise in the EV/Hybrids as it's not required and it's obnoxious.Haven't checked Forscan, but my as-built shows it already disabled. Plus that's in the IPC.
I’ll just place This here and direct you to 5.1.2 for some recreational reading. IANAL and this should not be construed as legal advice or relied upon in any way. I did stay in a Courtyard by Marriott once.
....except, not that many people have FORSCAN or ability/willingness to twiddle the bits first to avoid DTC being recorded. Which I guess wouldn't have any real consequences anyway.
It may be called a "safety feature", but I do not agree that it is effective and is anything other than super annoying. Nobody can prove a backup beeper on a MME is needed or improves safety. Mine is turned down to zero, and I have yet to find a reason to turn it back up.
