Comments on: 2010 Prius Complaints | That Bleeping Beep

By: J

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:01:20 +0000

Got my 2011 last Saturday and have been searching for a beep cure ever since. No knowledge of a scangauge being capable of doing it. Toyota claims only their proprietary software can do it.

For reference, it takes five minutes, that includes wheeling out the toughbook on its stand, plugging it into the car, drilling through the menus, selecting the option, disconnecting the cable, closing the laptop and driving the car back to the service pick up line.

No matter which way you manage, it will have to be re-accomplished if the battery dies, as the system resets to default. Best thing to do is get in good with the shop foreman and ask if you could bring it by at a convenient time for them. As a result, mine was free.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:38:27 +0000

Lyn –

But that’s the problem. I actually want a beep on my Prius, OUTSIDE the car that warns OTHER PEOPLE that my absolutely silent car might start moving. Toyota didn’t do that.

This beep is INSIDE THE CAR, where it deafens me to anything around me so I can’t hear anything around me.

Meanwhile, OUTSIDE the car, where I WANT noise made, the Prius is utterly silent and offers no warning to the people who I want to make aware that the car might move.

Toyota were idiots on this one. The car screams at me, inside the car, that it is about to move. I am aware that the car is about to move. If I didn’t mean for it to move, I wouldn’t have put it in bloody reverse!

Ah, well, I had hoped that I could do a dance and make it go away, but I appreciate all the comments on this thread informing me that dancing the “odometer shuffle” was wasting my time, and I’ll call my dealer forthwith. THANK YOU ALL.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 09 May 2011 01:57:36 +0000

Lyn -
Please don’t post on topics you obviously know nothing about. The reverse beep on the Prius is INSIDE THE CAR ONLY. It has nothing to do with notifying people outside of the car, it just lets the driver know that they are in reverse.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:36:56 +0000

you should not even be allowed to disable the beeping noise when reversing. it is a safety feature to indicate to others that the car is in the process of reversing (since it is difficult to hear that the engine is even on). i am just waiting for the day that a pedestrian is hit…

By: Del

Del — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:00:10 +0000

Oh my gosh, I just bought my car yesterday and that beeping is making me want to rip my hair out. Who can focus on reversing when you’re busy freaking out over that terrible noise? I didn’t know that it did this because the one that I test drove, I never reversed in…I guess next time I’ll think to ask that! UGH. (-_-)

By: maxine

maxine — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:48:46 +0000

does this work for 2010 prius? and how use/find Scanguage II.?

By: Philip Healey

Philip Healey — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:32:09 +0000

you can also turn off the continuous reverse beep as well as the seat belt beep with the very useful Scanguage II.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 02:15:52 +0000

We have a US 2010 and try as I can I cannot get the beep to turn off. I’ve tried everything I can think of and it never goes into the mode talked about here. HELP!

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.