How do you deactivate the key minder chime on 2001 Ranger you would like to keep the headlamp and other warning chimes but not the key in chime drivin you nuts thanks?

Answer 1

There is a no cost 15 minute solution to EVERY chime noise your vehicle makes. The following was written to address the SRS chime, but works for your problem too. Do you really need SOME of your chimes or can you do without them all?:

Ford knows you will try to take the flashing airbag light bulb, and the flashing check engine light bulb out of the back of your instrument panel. When you do, the CHIME feature of the truck will surprise you with a brand NEW noise that will never shut up and will never go away, much like a determined Sasquatch in heat. There are two solutions: Take the truck to FORD to fix it or reach for your toolbox for a no-cost fix:

Take out the centre of the instrument panel starting at the bottom, by taking off the passenger airbag switch panel cover (friction fit), and then take out the two passenger airbag switch panel screws. Partially take out the radio console by removing 2 more screws. Partially take out the air vent duct by taking out the one or two screws. Move them both aside so you can get access to the screw below the 1 x 4 x 5 inch music box that sits to the left of the radio. Take that screw out, disconnect the two plugs of the music box, and remove the music box. Yes, it has a more technical name. Open up the music box and locate the round component that looks like a short stack of quarters. Use a medium sized common screwdriver, peel away about 4 or 5 layers from the centre of the round component (the noisemaker). In other words, gut the noisemaker. Put the removed pieces of the noisemaker on a stone, and smash them with the sledgehammer, just in case.Reassemble, and you're done. Ford hasn't learned to deal with people who are more tenacious than their engineering staff.Ford also hasn't figured out that after a truck is 5 years old, it's nothing more to the owner than a simple farm truck. No one who owns a farm truck could give a rats about flashing lights and fancy Martha Stewart-approved chime systems. After 5 years, those features need to self-destruct. We don't care for systems that tell us we have left the keys in the ignition of the farm truck we never lock. When we look down at the PASS mark of the emission test, we could care less if the check engine light is reporting yet another false alarm. There is no requirement for an SRS airbag system when the farm truck is not going to be city driven. There is no need to panic about flashing lights when the internet tells you false codes are a widely-known problem with every vehicle in this model and year.

The 2001 farm truck I just bought has a fraction of the miles on the car I drive to town. The car needs the airbag system working. The farm truck doesn't need squat. It's happy as a clam with the modification, and absolutely everything on the farm truck works.There is nothing more irritating than a flashing light that sequences twice, then stays on permanently, throughout the trip, except, perhaps, for the stabbing irritation of the SRS airbag chime, that will begin again, and again, and again, and again, from time to time, leaving you in silence only briefly, then returning again, and again, and again, and again, in a feeble attempt to manipulate or embarrass you into making a service appointment (which with 2001 Ford Rangers needs to be made every week).Now you know why the vehicle was for sale in the first place. It was for sale because the previous owners didn't own the right size sledge hammer.

*** Another way you can disconnect the chime***

on the music box stated above there are 2 harnesses, if you disconnect the closer one it will disconnect chimes and dome light, everything else stays the same.