Toy Yoda, I'm not sure why our cars would be different. However, I have only Fuse #8 removed on my car, and I still got the seatbelt reminder chime.
Normally this is not a problem for me as I almost always wear my seatbelt, even just to move the car down the block. Force of habit I suppose. However, the other day when I was moving some DIY shelving with the seats in "Long Mode", the weight of the package was enough for the front passenger seat to think someone was sitting there, and triggered the seatbelt reminder chime.
For an easy fix during the trip, I just buckled in the passenger seatbelt anyways. But this is silly because that means the passenger side airbags are activated, even though no one's sitting there.
Anyways, I remembered you saying something about this chime being disabled with the DRL fuse pulled. So I thought maybe it's just the driver side that's disabled. So I tried it after I got home and guess what, I still got the seatbelt chime.
U sure your chime was disabled because of the DRL fuse?
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R.K., All cars sold in Canada has been required BY LAW to have DRL since 1990. Any newer cars that you see without DRL either have their bulb filments burnt out, been deactivated by the owner, or was a US import that had a "temporary" DRL put in just to pass inspection for licensing. Also, keep in mind North American DRLs can run almost ANY light up front. Low beam, high beam, fog lights, even turn signals (21w, not 5w parking lights)
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Bengolf, I believe the DRL on the Fit runs part voltage to the high beam filment of our H4 bulbs. So if someone had a low beam only HID conversion, it should not light up from the DRL. But you would get the DRL warning light in your dash. So pulling fuse #8 takes care of that.
