Disable Autopark thang.

[White Eagle]

I noticed a big hassle when trying to put my jeep in drive or reverse with the driver’s door open, wouldn’t go anywhere and had to go through a process to get it back moving.

It might be a spectacular feature for some but for my way of life it is a major hassle. I deal with trailers, backing up, opening gates, shooting out the door with the vehicle moving, and other ranch work where I need the door open while in gear.

I plugged a dummy seatbelt into the driver’s seatbelt thing and that ended that hassle ! It works by just buckling the seatbelt behind you too.

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[Badunit]

Yep, a less than brilliant person leans out the door at a fast food drive thru to pick up the change they dropped then hits the gas and gets crushed by their door and now we all have to deal with another idiotic "safety" feature.

I've not had a reason to be "shooting out the door with the vehicle moving" but, whatever you need to do, you should be able to do it without a "safety feature" stopping you. Happy hunting.

 

[White Eagle]

 

[Gvsukids]

Tazer disables it.

 

[White Eagle]

I’m learning these things.

Now if I can just find a 33-35” C rated all season type tire. I hate off road tires off road.

 

[Dhstec]

I believe they came up with this idea after the actor Anton Yelchin got crushed by his Cherokee.

 

[629]

Well, I agree with the OP. I don’t need this Technology to keep me safe. I’m smart enough to not hang out the door at the drive-in. However, some of the places I go with large rocks in the road I like to open the door to see what I’m running over etc (I use low range weekly). Or to simply pull up two feet so I can close a cattle gate. It’s amazing that we made it 100 years without silly Technology putting our cars in park (how did we not die). It’s also amazing that I can use a blender without jamming my hand down in it. I appreciate the suggestion to put the seatbelt behind me..thanks for the info.

 

[White Eagle]

Right you are 629

 

[White Eagle]

I don’t even know who that is

 

[629]

I do need a taser…seems like a lot of weird intervention by this vehicle that we really don’t need. It seems odd to me that a lot of these features you just can’t simply turn off from factory form.

 

[Gvsukids]

I’m learning these things.

Now if I can just find a 33-35” C rated all season type tire. I hate off road tires off road.

How about the Falkin Wildpeak A/T?

 

[Mud Pie]

I have a theory about all this "over-protection" prevalent in today's society. I call it The Bike Helmet Theory.

Back in the early 1980's, bike helmets were everywhere. What did bike helmets do ? They let the stupid survive. As kids, we never had them and when we fell, if it hurt, well, we learned something; don't do THAT again. We grew intellectually. Bike helmets let the stupid survive and try again. And again. Never to learn. Stupid kid grows into stupid adult. Who marries stupid adult ? Another stupid adult. Then they have stupid kids. So on and so forth. Society, as a result, becomes stupid. How do you protect stupid ?? Make up laws that are common sense to the non-stupids, but need to be spelled out to the stupids. But since there are no IQ test requirements to do anything, the Stupid Protection Laws affect all of us. Just look at all the warnings on a simple step ladder. Mind boggling. Too many stupids fell off them...

Blame bike helmets.

 

[Labswine]

The solution could be even simpler than a tazer or J-scan.

If you first put your window down (unless it's raining or cold out, then leave it up) then simply unplug the door's electrical connector (like you've taken the doors off) then that should disable that 'feature'. If it didn't, then how, otherwise, could one drive around without the doors on?

 

[starrskream]

don't our doors...come off? Pretty much eliminating that worry? you could easily just unplug the door in bad weather if you think having the door off would be a hassle....and before you say "but what if you need to roll down the window?" I'll say the answer is the same as why the window switches are in the center of the vehicle...
i think tazer and ECRI can solve this. I have an ECRI, but only ever messed with the hood alarm.

 

[White Eagle]

I’ll have to look at the AT4 because the stock ATW hold nasty rocks and not enough stone ejectors to protect from drilling. My stock tires will be wasted by summer anyway. They do hold on wet pavement fairly well so far.

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