Passenger seats
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Passenger seats
I have a '24 F-350 SWD Lariat ultimate with max reclining seats. I ordered the truck middle of February and came in May. The one thing I noticedand thought strange was when someone is sitting in the front passenger seat and/or rear seats I can drive down the road and there are no warning signals telling me someone is in those seats, not buckled up etc. I can be on the highway going the posted speed limit and those sitting in the seats don't have to be buckled because their are no seatbelt signals going off. This seems odd to me since the NTSB is so intent on having occupants in a vehicle buckled in while a vehicle is in motion. All my other vehicles require those in seats to be buckled in for alarms not to sound.
However, once a passenger buckles up then the "system" works showing green on the seat belt display screen. If the passenger unbuckles then the seat belt alarm goes off.
Once the truck is turned off then started again their is no indication for passengers to buckel up.
I asked the salesman about this and did not get a answer if this was normal or not.
so, I ask... is this a normal function or are the seat sensors not functioning properly on this Super Duty?
However, once a passenger buckles up then the "system" works showing green on the seat belt display screen. If the passenger unbuckles then the seat belt alarm goes off.
Once the truck is turned off then started again their is no indication for passengers to buckel up.
I asked the salesman about this and did not get a answer if this was normal or not.
so, I ask... is this a normal function or are the seat sensors not functioning properly on this Super Duty?
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Been a lot of talk about this. My '19 has no seat belt reminder for the passenger either, which I thought was ODD. Apparently anything over 8,500 GVWR can follow different government rules.
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My 23 acts that way, maybe it is because we put stuff on the seats and they didn't want alarms going off due to stuff vs people. It would be real annoying to have to buckle up a bag of feed or your big dog.
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Makes me wonder if the seat does not recognize a person in the seat, what about the airbag system?
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