2001 Mercury Cougar Owner Guide 2nd Printing - Page 120
2001 Mercury Cougar Manual
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Seating and safety restraints Belt Minder The Belt Minder feature is a supplemental warning to the safety belt warning function. This feature provides additional reminders to the driver that the driver's safety belt is unbuckled by intermittently sounding a chime and illuminating the Safety belt warning light in the instrument cluster once the vehicle speed has exceeded 5 km/h (3 mph). If...If the driver's safety belt is not buckled approximately 5 seconds after the safety belt warning light has turned off ...Then...The Belt Minder feature is activated - the Safety belt warning light illuminates and the warning chime sounds for 6 seconds every 30 seconds, repeating for approximately 5 minutes or until safety belt is buckled. The Belt Minder feature will not activate. The driver's safety belt is buckled while the indicator light is illuminated and the warning chime is sounding... The driver's safety belt is buckled The Belt Minder feature will not before the ignition switch is turned activate. to the ON position ...