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Key Left Vehicle Feature (Three Horn Chirp)

How do you feel about it?

  • Love it! It's a life saver!

    Votes: 6 1.7%

  • I hate it! Get rid of it.

    Votes: 120 33.1%

  • I'd like the option to disable it.

    Votes: 236 65.2%
  • Total voters
    362
I voted for being able to disable it, as I can see situations where one might want it. That said, for myself and most others here it’s bad enough that I suggest a TSB with a computer flash to disable it on existing vehicles. I know on the Gladiator forums there have been several members that actually sold their Jeeps because of the honking, and we may have had someone here that sold their Ram because of it.

As someone who tows his RV frequently and regularly arrives at campgrounds at night it’s a very problematic feature. I leave the keys in my pocket so I never accidentally forget them, but when I pull up to a campsite I’m in and out of the truck several times while getting my trailer set up and disconnected. The honking is exceptionally rude to the other campers.

These trucks are not quiet. No one is ever going to get out and walk away thinking they shut it off.
 
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37-0 so far. Pretty obvious this is a roundly disliked feature. Hard to believe with all the options on the uConnect that one of them is not to disable this annoying feature.
 
RamCares said:
Hey everyone,

We'd love to get your opinion on how you feel about the Key Left Vehicle Feature otherwise known as the Three Horn Chirp, or the horn that sounds when you've left your Key Fob inside of your truck or when your truck is left running without the Key Fob inside.
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I get it, safety first, but there should be an option to disable it.
 
Mine has never chirped when I leave the truck while it's running.. I have an ez link and might have turned it off but I do like the chirp when I forget the key in the truck and it's off and I try to lock it. I forget the key in there all the time. That's a good one for me.
 
It drives me nuts. I have resorted to leaving the drivers door not-all-the-way latched when I go to drop of my kids at school. In a parking lot it makes people think that I'm honking at them to stop or trying to alert them to something. It's right up there with the Uconnect issues on my "hate" list.
 
Thank you for reaching out and giving us the opportunity to give you some feedback.

I'm in and out of the running truck often opening and closing gates, checking the mail, fueling, etc. and it's annoying, discourteous to others around, and unnecessary. There's also a potential hearing loss hazard as one is walking around the front of the truck as the horn sounds 1-2-3 times. I know there's some claim to safety, but that sounds a bit contrived and like a solution looking for a problem to me. I'm a retired battalion chief and had an assigned FD vehicle and this would be an annoying nuisance in that capacity. At emergency scenes, especially wildland fires, we are in and out of our running vehicles constantly. Many agencies use vehicle horn blasts to signal safety threshold trigger points. Out-of-the-blue honking horns all over a going incident is an absolutely terrible and potentially unsafe distraction. At the very least give us the option to disable it.

Thanks again for reaching out.
 
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Ctate said:
Mine has never chirped when I leave the truck while it's running.. I have an ez link and might have turned it off but I do like the chirp when I forget the key in the truck and it's off and I try to lock it. I forget the key in there all the time. That's a good one for me.
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You have a 2021, this started with 2022.
 
Here’s my post for how to disable it. Not easy, but if you want it gone it’s a clean solution.

Eliminate 3 horn chirp when exiting vehicle while engine running
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Eliminate 3 horn chirp when exiting vehicle while engine running

This topic has been discussed a bit in these forums, most recently in a merged thread located here. In that thread a solution was discussed to leverage the VSIM wiring as a way to bypass the BCM chirps while the engine was running. Other solutions were also discussed, but this is one that I...
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mountainears said:
Here’s my post for how to disable it. Not easy, but if you want it gone it’s a clean solution.

Eliminate 3 horn chirp when exiting vehicle while engine running
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Eliminate 3 horn chirp when exiting vehicle while engine running

This topic has been discussed a bit in these forums, most recently in a merged thread located here. In that thread a solution was discussed to leverage the VSIM wiring as a way to bypass the BCM chirps while the engine was running. Other solutions were also discussed, but this is one that I...
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I'm sure hoping that Ram is considering some kind of ECM flash/update so we can disable it without going through all of that. If not, I am doing this and thank you for sharing it with us.
 
Get rid of it or have a disable function like turning off the horn beeps during remote start or locking the truck. Those are the first things I shut off.
 
Thank you for asking us! I cannot stand it. I feel like I'm disrupting the neighbors whenever it goes off. Please give us the option to disable this. Those that want it can then keep it turned on. Would this be something we can have changed on our current trucks or would this only be for future trucks?
 
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We’re up to 3 votes for loving it. I hope they are joking, but likely not. It’s the “warning label” world we live in.

At the end of the day the fact that society has gotten us to this place is the worst part. Who ever thought we needed this isn’t capable of living an adult life.
 
Absolutely HATE it along with my neighbors every morning when I walk out to warm up my truck at 4:45am!
 
AH64ID said:
We’re up to 3 votes for loving it. I hope they are joking, but likely not. It’s the “warning label” world we live in.

At the end of the day the fact that society has gotten us to this place is the worst part. Who ever thought we needed this isn’t capable of living an adult life.
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I’d bet all 3 are either people who either don’t have trucks that do it, don’t have any idea what we’re talking about, or trolls.
 
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