Nissan Altima remote/key fob - how to make it not honk!

I bought a 2005 Nissan Altima a few months ago, and although I am happy with it overall, there are some things that really irk me. I finally figured out how to avoid one of them, after all this time.

I like it just fine when I lock my van (2001 Toyota Sienna) with the remote. It gives a gentle 'beep' to let me know that it heard me and locked itself. The Nissan, though, lets out a loud 'HONK' of the horn, which annoys me every single time I lock it (especially late at night or early in the morning).

But, I always lock my vehicles from the outside, with the remote. It's how I always avoid locking my keys in my car. Can't lock them in the car if they're in my hand, outside of the car, when I lock it.

Well, yesterday I accidentally found a workaround for the 'HONK'. All I have to do his push the lock button on the remote while the door is still open. No beep, no honk. Just the quiet click of doors locking. As long as I always still lock it from the outside, with the remote, just before closing the door, I will hopefully still avoid locking my keys in the car.

I hope this proves useful to someone else. I wish I'd known sooner. I'll post some other of my pet peeves about my Nissan Altima soon, in the hopes that someone might have a solution/workaround, or at least to vent/get it out of my system.

Need to start blogging regularly

I keep kicking myself every day for not posting anything on here... I've been meaning to for a couple weeks, at least. Every day I have something that makes me think to myself, "I should blog this," but then I don't. So, today I'm blogging about how I need to start blogging, in the hopes that it will start a trend.

This will probably consist of short and simple daily posts, about things that I like, and things that I don't like.

So, uhh.. stay tuned or something.