Comments on: 2010 Prius Complaints | That Bleeping Beep

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:20:57 +0000

I don’t like the beeps and my wife likes it less. The dealer said they would charge 1/2 hour of service to change this option. I decided that it would not be worth it.
I guess that Toyota made the beeps standard to cover their you-know-whats or collect additional service charges.
Note: The oil change interval is now 10,000 miles, but I will have the car in for tire rotation (a curious term as I rotate my tires each time I drive) at 5,000 miles – maybe they’d do it then for no additional charge.

By: NickelDime

NickelDime — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:25:54 +0000

Here is the routine for removing the reverse beep (from http://www.vfaq.net/FAQ-misc.html#reverse)

Do the following:

Power on (not necessarily ready, IG-ON will do).
Set Trip/ODO to ODO (if it’s already set to ODO, you still have to cycle through the options: ODO, Trip A, Trip B, and back to ODO).
Power off.
Power on to ready (brake on).
Within 6 seconds, press and hold ODO for 10 seconds or more.
WHILE STILL HOLDING ODO *after* 10 seconds, Shift from P to R, then back to P. Now release ODO.
You’ll see in the trip display “b on” or “b off”.
Press ODO to toggle.
Now power off.

By: Francisco

Francisco — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:42:02 +0000

I don’t recall a beep at the door-lock when I shift to Drive (out of Park). However, I did have the repetitive beep changed to a single beep when engaging Reverse. It adds to the driving pleasure… Besides, beeps are nagging to me. I just don’t like them.

By: Bell Hell

Bell Hell — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:56:03 +0000

I have to have the triple beeb-beeb-beep- turned off for the ‘door lock’ button on the door panel. My 04′ Prius had a nice little button on the out side of the door to lock to door. This beeb is driving me bleeping crazy. Anyone?

By: TC

TC — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:44:49 +0000

how did you turn the beep off the reverse?

By: AndyB

AndyB — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:57:18 +0000

I’m in the UK – had a new Prius a week and that damn noise was driving me round the blasted twist!! Went to one dealer who point blank refused and said it couldn’t be changed. Went to another and said: ‘how would you like to get the servicing contract for this car?’; five minutes later – job done! Stick it in reverse now and I get one single short beep – heaven! Peace at last – my sanity is restored. Now if I can just find a petrol pump that will fill the tank without clicking off every two seconds – still trying to solve that one……

By: Paul Aleksinko

Paul Aleksinko — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:18:20 +0000

Well, I have it done.
Al Hendrison toyota in pompano beach florida 954-972-1100 mute the reverse beeping noise to one short beep.
It took 1 minute to do it and no charge.

By: Chris K.

Chris K. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:17:17 +0000

So we picked up our 3g this week. We’ve owned a 2001 Prius for years but never a 2g. I actually find the shifter counter-intuitive (pull down to move forward?) So I’m thankful for the backup beep, it’ll keep me from going the wrong direction accidentally.

But yeah, allowing me to disable it (once the shifter has become second-nature) would be cool. Particularly as I back out of my driveway every morning.

Any way to disable the damned door lock beep? (Can the dealership disable it?) I’m sure my neighbors will hate it after a couple weeks.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:22:12 +0000

I totally agree with Jay. They should at least have the salesman or service manager cover this before it leaves the dealership.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:11:06 +0000

I’ve tried the instructions that worked on the older Prius models and they don’t seem to work on the 2010 model. This is really annoying that I have to be inconvenienced by making a service appointment just to turn this stupid beep off. I’m sure they will charge me an hour’s labor to do it too.

Hey Toyota, if it’s a configuration setting it should be configurable by the owner.