Safety belt minder, Safety belts – FORD 2013 Escape v.1 User Manual

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SAFETY BELT MINDER

Belt-Minder®

This feature supplements the safety belt
warning function by providing additional
reminders by intermittently sounding a
chime and illuminating the safety belt
warning light when the driver's or front
passenger's seat is occupied and the
safety belt is unbuckled.

The system uses information from the
front passenger sensing system to
determine if a front seat passenger is
present and therefore potentially in need
of a warning. To avoid activating the
Belt-Minder feature for objects placed in
the front passenger seat, warnings will only
be given to large front seat occupants as
determined by the front passenger sensing
system.

If the Belt-Minder warnings have expired
(warnings for approximately five minutes)
for one occupant (driver or front
passenger), the other occupant can still
activate the Belt-Minder feature.

Then...

If...

The Belt-Minder feature will not activate.

The driver's and front passenger's safety

belts are buckled before the ignition switch
is turned to the on position or less than 1-2

minutes have elapsed since the ignition

switch has been turned to on...

The Belt-Minder feature is activated - the

safety belt warning light illuminates and

the warning chime sounds for six seconds

every 25 seconds, repeating for approxim-

ately five minutes or until the safety belts

are buckled.

The driver's or front passenger's safety belt
is not buckled when the vehicle has reached

at least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and 1-2 minutes

have elapsed since the ignition switch has

been turned to on...