Horn honks 4 times

[enjen]

Reviving this thread to see if anybody knows of a fix yet? These three honks are going to drive my neighbours insane.

What is the point of keyless entry if you have to take your keys out of your pocket and put them in the car just to be able to open/close the doors without waking up the neighbourhood. Nor should I have to leave a door partially open in winter to avoid it.

 

[hamada128]

Reviving this thread to see if anybody knows of a fix yet? These three honks are going to drive my neighbours insane.

What is the point of keyless entry if you have to take your keys out of your pocket and put them in the car just to be able to open/close the doors without waking up the neighbourhood. Nor should I have to leave a door partially open in winter to avoid it.

No fix yet.

 

[Riviera]

Would using the remote start solve your problem?

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I'll remote start the vehicle. load items in the vehicle, and NEVER have pushed the start button, and it still honks. I really love it when it does it at 5 am and my neighbors are sleeping. I think I am going to disconnect the horn from the harness and install a momentary switch for when I do need the horn. This is 100% unacceptable for me.

 

[Moj]

Reviving this thread to see if anybody knows of a fix yet? These three honks are going to drive my neighbours insane.

What is the point of keyless entry if you have to take your keys out of your pocket and put them in the car just to be able to open/close the doors without waking up the neighbourhood. Nor should I have to leave a door partially open in winter to avoid it.

Yeah, it’s so annoying

In winters When making a quick stop. I leave my car running, so 3 horns when I close the door, and then 1 more horn when I lock the car

Every one around me usually turns around and looks at me like what’s wrong with you

 

[Sarge]

It's absolutely horrible. I don't know what moron decided this was an acceptable 'feature', but they have no business designing anything at all.

Imagine an apartment complex with outdoor parking, where everyone in the complex drove one of these. The cacophony would be never-ending. It's just an absolutely HORRIBLE design and they NEED to fix it. I also hate that the horn has a delay when you push the steering wheel. You can't even make a polite 'micro tap', it's a full blast or nothing, and there's a delay, so it's easy to either not get any noise, or way too much noise. 0/10 on their horn design all the way around.

 

[Riviera]

I've decided I'm definitely disconnecting the factory horns and adding Hella brand hotns and a momentary switch. Too bad I can't fix the awful instrument cluster.

 

[dynamics101]

This is a classic liability prevention feature. Every year, some horrible accidents occur. If those accidents are related to smart keys, accident attorneys file a law suit against almost all parties including the car manufacturer. They know that the car manufacturer has a deep pocket. So any or every single possible feature associated with safety would allow Jeep to prevent a $100 million+ settlement.

It's really bad since many owners will suffer from these annoying features.

However, let's be optimistic. Who knows? The annoying feature would really save some precious lives every year.

 

[Sarge]

They should have installed a secondary ‘chirp’ speaker like BMW and others use instead of saving a few dollars on every vehicle and annoying the hundreds of thousands of owners and millions of others who now have to listen to this cacophony for decades into the future.

There is a better way to mitigate the liability and they cheaped out. It’s reprehensible.

 

[Moj]

They should have installed a secondary ‘chirp’ speaker like BMW and others use instead of saving a few dollars on every vehicle and annoying the hundreds of thousands of owners and millions of others who now have to listen to this cacophony for decades into the future.

There is a better way to mitigate the liability and they cheaped out. It’s reprehensible.

There’s is a secondary chirp/beep, the one that goes off when the trunk is open or closed. They could just use that too instead of honks

 

[Sarge]

There’s is a secondary chirp/beep, the one that goes off when the trunk is open or closed. They could just use that too instead of honks

Yes, that's what I'm saying. It would require an additional piece of hardware and some coding, but the production cost wouldn't be much. It's insane they didn't do that. I'd pay for a retrofit if they ever make the change.

 

[mck024]

I've trained myself to always open the driver door before I put anything in the back seat. So stupid.