Disable honking when stepping out while engine is running

[Gvsukids]

My usual winter routine is to unlock my Jeep as I am walking toward it, put the key back in my pocket, get in, start the engine, start the defrost, get the ice scraper, get out, shut the door so as to not let out the heat, then scrape windows. Honking of the horn is not an appreciated feature. My wish is that it had a wider range so I'd have to be actually walking away before it honks.

Why not remote start, and then unlock to get the scraper? If cold enough, the heated seats will come on and the defrost will blow on hi when using auto climate control.

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[Wheelin98TJ]

I think this was added around the time of the TPMS change in June of '21. I like that my '20 Overland doesn't do this. The FOB only leaves my pocket to unlock the gas cap. I frequently leave it running while doing errands. My 2013 Nissan Leaf does this, but the horn is not loud.

Mine is a ‘21 that I think was built in 9/20, so that would make sense. Thanks.

My 2021 was built Dec 2020 and it doesn’t honk.

 

[Broccoli]

 

[JTDay]

Only close the driver door to the first "click" and it won't honk. Alternatively, I'll just have my humanoid robot get out of the car and handle the menial tasks while I stay in the driver seat.

 

[Erievon]

Why not remote start, and then unlock to get the scraper? If cold enough, the heated seats will come on and the defrost will blow on hi when using auto climate control.

That's how I do it. BUT...this just reminded me of something, can't believe I haven't thought about it. Past vehicles I've had with remote start, there was a way to hand the vehicle off from "running" to "Remote Start" when I wanted to get out of the vehicle and leave it running but locked down, this was especially handy in vehicles with a key ignition. It was a specific set of key presses. Has anyone found a way to do this yet?

 

[Wheelin98TJ]

That's how I do it. BUT...this just reminded me of something, can't believe I haven't thought about it. Past vehicles I've had with remote start, there was a way to hand the vehicle off from "running" to "Remote Start" when I wanted to get out of the vehicle and leave it running but locked down, this was especially handy in vehicles with a key ignition. It was a specific set of key presses. Has anyone found a way to do this yet?

Why not just shut it off, lock it, and then remote start?

 

[WILDHOBO]

That's how I do it. BUT...this just reminded me of something, can't believe I haven't thought about it. Past vehicles I've had with remote start, there was a way to hand the vehicle off from "running" to "Remote Start" when I wanted to get out of the vehicle and leave it running but locked down, this was especially handy in vehicles with a key ignition. It was a specific set of key presses. Has anyone found a way to do this yet?

I’d love that as well.

 

[Erievon]

Why not just shut it off, lock it, and then remote start?

Could, but thats an extra cycle on the starter and battery. If it's very occasional, yeah that's a fine approach. But the question comes within the context of this thread, people hopping out while it's running. If I'm going to shut it off, might as well just leave it off until I'm ready to go again.

This would be a way to tell the truck, "hey man, it's ok I'll be right back" and be a little more secure, someone couldn't just hop in and drive away without the fob, but the motor never shut down.

 

[Erievon]

This would be a way to tell the truck, "hey man, it's ok I'll be right back" and be a little more secure, someone couldn't just hop in and drive away without the fob, but the motor never shut down.

Another advantage to this approach is if you intended to only hop out for a minute, but somehow got detained and couldn't get back to the truck, it would shut itself down in 10-15 minutes depending on what you have the run time set to in settings.

 

[biplaneguy]

Why not remote start, and then unlock to get the scraper? If cold enough, the heated seats will come on and the defrost will blow on hi when using auto climate control.

That doesn't work for those of us without remote start.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

My usual winter routine is to unlock my Jeep as I am walking toward it, put the key back in my pocket, get in, start the engine, start the defrost, get the ice scraper, get out, shut the door so as to not let out the heat, then scrape windows. Honking of the horn is not an appreciated feature. My wish is that it had a wider range so I'd have to be actually walking away before it honks.

My routine if it's parked outside - remote start, give it a couple of minutes, then unlock door, open door, grab scraper, close door, scrape windows, get in, press brake, press big start button, move on.
No honks with remote start. BUT not everyone has remote start, so........

Seems all this trouble comes from folks putting thier Jeeps away with engines running inside a garage1 SAFETY is the reason! Manufactures think we can't take care of ourselves! Maybe they are correct!!!

Many people, including my son when he borrowed my truck, got out and walked away from it, still running. It's quiet.
Ford resolved the issue by having the engine shut down after xx minutes.
It's a problem - the engines run really quiet, you pull into your garage, get out, go in the house, and failed to shut it off as you were doing so many other things, maybe dinking with your phone, responding to that all-important text, thinking of something else - you put it in park and get out and walk away.
There it is, running all night. You walk into the garage the next morning and are suffocated.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

uld, but thats an extra cycle on the starter and battery.

LOL - for an ESS designed engine and starter that's nothing, especially since it's not an every day thing. Out of hundreds, even thousands of cycles, that handful won't matter a bit.

Unless I am jumping out to run back into the house to grab something I forgot and am coming back out in seconds, I shut it off. If I'm going to be away from it for more than just a quick, run in, grab whatever I forgot, then run back out again, it's off.

There's no way in heck I'd walk away from it running if it wasn't in my own driveway - someone else can hop in and take off with it.
It's really too bad that you can actually drive these without a fob present - but then, I get that, too, because if the FOB battery dies while you are on a long trip - it could mean the thing shuts down and you can start it by nose of fob against the start button, but wouldn't be able to drive it. So with these systems, there's really no way to get around what we've got.
If you can't drive it without the FOB you are screwed if your FOB batteries die on a trip.

So, I guess, I get or understand why it's how it is. People have been hurt, possibly killed (I'd have to check again but last time I dug into it, there was actually talk of someone dying in their garage after their vehicle ran all night)
The reason you can drive away with no fob, but not restart it later with no FOB is because FOB batteries die.

I find ways to work around the honks, I guess.

 

[Erievon]

Was just keeping within the argument of the thread. Stater wear not terribly worried about. These batteries though, I don't trust as far as I can throw them.

And being able to hand off to remote start and lock the vehicle down would alleviate the security risk. I've Google-fu'd my butt off doesn't seem possible. Mfgs seem to have eliminated "Pit Stop" mode from OEM remote start now that you can hop out with the fob and lock it.

My fusion way back in 2015 had the auto shut down feature you mentioned, worked really well. After the determined time, big message came up on the instrument panel asking if you wanted to leave the vehicle running or not when the fob left the car. So you couldnt leave it on over night by accident, but if you happened to somehow be driving the vehicle without (or with a dead) fob you had the option to leave it running. Perfect execution. Disappointed Jeep/FCA/Stelllanis/owner of the week hasn't followed suit.

But even that vehicle hooked when I got out.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

These batteries though, I don't trust as far as I can throw them.

I hear ya there!
Our 4xe is a year old, we've almost owned it for a year (it was an order that the woman who ordered it didn't pick up so was on the lot for a month or two)
I'm already keeping track of the 12v battery in it.
Getting a lot of argument from the "4xe guru" that 12.4 volts after sitting a day after being fully charged to max, then driven for an hour is normal.
I tried to say - nope, 12.4 is not normal but his argument was that "his did it too".
Too bad, charge both batteries - my JT and the JLU.
Let each sit for a day - JT is still at 12.63, JLU is down to 12.36.
I checked the battery after my wife drove her JLU for an hour - it was only 12.4 volts. I caught it after sitting almost a week at 12.0 while my JT was well above that.
So I look forward to a battery replacement in the JLU.

 

[Mr._Bill]

I searched before, but couldn't find it. This showed up in the Similar Threads section of my new post.

Did anyone ever find a way to turn this off?

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