2014 Ford Focus Owner Manual Printing 1 - Page 41

40 Safety Belts SAFETY BELT-MINDER® This feature supplements the safety belt warning function by providing additional reminders by intermittently sounding a chime and illuminating the safety belt warning light when the driver's or front passenger's seat is occupied and the safety belt is unbuckled. The system uses information from the front passenger sensing system to determine if a front seat passenger is present and therefore potentially in need of a warning. To avoid activating the Belt-Minder feature for objects placed in the front passenger seat, warnings will only be given to large front seat occupants as determined by the front passenger sensing system. If the Belt-Minder warnings have expired (warnings for about five minutes) for one occupant (driver or front passenger), the other occupant can still activate the Belt-Minder feature. If...The driver's and front passenger's safety belts are buckled before the ignition is turned on or less than 1-2 minutes have elapsed since the ignition has been turned on...The driver's or front passenger's safety belt is not buckled when the vehicle has reached at least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and 1-2 minutes have elapsed since the ignition has been turned on...Then...The Belt-Minder feature will not activate. The Belt-Minder feature is activated - the safety belt warning light illuminates and the warning chime sounds for six seconds every 30 seconds, repeating for about five minutes or until the safety belts are buckled. The driver's or front passenger's The Belt-Minder feature is activated - the safety belt warning light safety belt becomes unbuckled for about one minute while the illuminates and the warning chime sounds for six seconds every vehicle is traveling at least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and more than 30 seconds, repeating for about 1-2 minutes have elapsed since five minutes or until the safety belts the ignition has been turned on...are buckled. 2014 Focus (foc) Owners Guide gf, 1st Printing, October 2012 USA (fus)