2006 Ford GT Owner Guide 1st Printing - Page 44

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Seating and Safety Restraints BeltMinderி The BeltMinder௢ 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 lamp in the instrument cluster. If...The driver's safety belt is not buckled approximately 5 seconds after the safety belt warning light has turned off and the vehicle speed is over about 4 mph (7 km/h)...The driver's safety belt is buckled while the safety belt indicator light is illuminated and the safety belt warning chime is sounding...The driver's safety belt is buckled before the ignition switch is turned to the ON position...Then...The BeltMinder௢ 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 BeltMinder௢ feature will not activate. The BeltMinder௢ feature will not activate. The following are reasons most often given for not wearing safety belts (All statistics based on U.S. data): Reasons given..."Crashes are rare events" Consider...367 00 crashes occur every day. The more we drive, the more we are exposed to "rare" events, even for good drivers. 1 in 4 of us will be seriously injured in a crash during our lifetime. 3 of 4 fatal crashes occur within 25 miles of home. "I'm not going far" 44 2006 GT (gto) Owners Guide (post-2002-fmt) USA_English (fus)

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BeltMinder
±
The BeltMinder
°
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 lamp in the
instrument cluster.
If...
Then...
The driver’s safety belt is not
buckled approximately 5
seconds after the safety belt
warning light has turned off
and the vehicle speed is over
about 4 mph (7 km/h)...
The BeltMinder
°
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 driver’s safety belt is
buckled while the safety belt
indicator light is illuminated
and the safety belt warning
chime is sounding...
The BeltMinder
°
feature will not
activate.
The driver’s safety belt is
buckled before the ignition
switch is turned to the ON
position...
The BeltMinder
°
feature will not
activate.
The following are reasons most often given for not wearing safety belts
(All statistics based on U.S. data):
Reasons given...
Consider...
“Crashes are rare events”
367 00 crashes occur every day.
The more we drive, the more we are
exposed to “rare” events, even for
good drivers.
1 in 4 of us will be
seriously injured in a crash during
our lifetime.
“I’m not going far”
3 of 4
fatal crashes occur within
25
miles of home.
200
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GT
(gto)
Owners Guide (post-2002-fmt)
USA_English
(fus)
Seating and Safety Restraints
44