2013 Lincoln MKZ Owner Manual Printing 2 - Page 40

Safety Belts SAFETY BELT MINDER 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 seat or front passenger 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 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. Then... 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 Belt-Minder feature will not activate. The driver's or front passenger's safety The Belt-Minder feature is activated the safety belt warning light illuminbelt is not buckled when the vehicle ates and the warning chime sounds has reached at least 6 mph (9.7 km/ h) and 1-2 minutes have elapsed since for six seconds every 25 seconds, the ignition has been turned on...repeating for about five minutes or until the safety belts are buckled. The driver's or front passenger's safety The Belt-Minder feature is activated belt becomes unbuckled for about one the safety belt warning light illuminminute while the vehicle is traveling at ates and the warning chime sounds for six seconds every 25 seconds, least 6 mph (9.7 km/h) and more than 1-2 minutes have elapsed since the repeating for about five minutes or ignition has been turned on...until the safety belts are buckled. 38 MKZ (CC9)