2020 Kia E-Niro VESS/Reverse Chime defeat solution

Thanks... Is there a diy? I have not opened up that part of the dash yet.

 

Do you recall where you purchased it? Some quick searching did not find any Kia parts store (even a couple in Europe) which recognized that part #. Thanks

 

The first post in thread describes how to pop that component out.

 

I just sold my niro and have one from a wrecked car from Portugal - I can send it to you for $100 including shipping.

 

Dealer here in the US could not order this part for me. 93700G5FH0WK

 

PM me if this fits. https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/70772414

 

Do you know how much power is running over these wires? I really didn't want to tap the wires on the harness but I had some spare raspberry pi gpio wires laying around that I thought could work. I have some of the male tipped wires and if you take off the black plastic cover, it exposes the crimped male tip. That tip easily fits down inside the wire harness connector. It feels snug and when it's secured in place with electrical tape, it's not moving.

My only concern though is how small those gpio wires are. You can pretty much brake them in half without any effort. I hooked it up and tested and it does in fact work. And it will be very easy to remove since there was no wire tapping needed. But I'm concerned of the wires burning out. Raspberry pi can use them and run 5v over them, but I don't know if that is good enough for this application.

 

I have this part if somebody need it, just msg me.
Dealer just bought 2 of them by mistake and second one is useless for me.

 

This is exactly what I did. It took less than 30 minutes and didn't involve all of the difficult panel-work and re-wiring that is the primary subject of this thread. Nothing against that method - it looks elegant and may be better in some way - I just wanted to save time and effort.
I found a fuse-tap on Amazon I could just plug into the fuse panel and wire it through a switch that I mounted in the fuse panel. I flick the switch off before going into reverse and it disables Vess (and a few other things that are on that circuit that aren't critical at low speed), and then flick it on when I am going forward. I also bought a spare fuse panel so that I can remove it when I go to the dealer to avoid any warranty questions. We feel the relief of not having to listen to the obnoxiously loud backup sound every time we drive the car.

 

Sorry if I missed this somewhere in the thread, I tried to look for it. Is there a way to muffle the speaker so that the sound is not so loud? Messing with the wiring is scary to me. Thanks.

 

Thanks so much for this thread. I think I am going to use this button.
https://www.amazon.com/ESUPPORT-Headlight-Button-Toggle-Missiles/dp/B07N2BDH2B

 

Got it done.
Made some videos, going to edit those together. If they're good enough, I'll put it up on YouTube.

 

Here is the video if anyone wants...