Air bag light.

[Buck347]

Hi all, another common problem arose again today so I thought I'd share it and the fix.

Basically I had the airbag light come on again and the lcd said 'airbag fault'.

The cause of this was the connectors under the passenger seat (last time it was the drivers side) the wires on mine if I recall correctly are orange and blue.

My son moved the seat today and it came on. I turned the ignition off, moved the seat up/down (mine are electric) and that cured it.

To avoid any accidents I disconnect the battery after moving the seats back and into the best position to work on the wires. Then one at a time cut a wire and join it to the corresponding wire. To ensure a good connection I twist the wires then solder them.

There are two sets of these plugs under the seats, I belie e one I believe is the pretensioner and the other the airbag. I still don't know which is which so I cut off both plugs and re-solder the wires. Like I said one wire at a time so no mistakes are made.

Hope this helps.

[Welly]

Yes that's certainly a good fix as the plastic connectors are renowned for giving poor connections at the contact pins, and like you say moving the seat flags the fault. Makes you wonder if the air bags would actually fire sometimes.

[Doggy]

Yes, that's an effective cure.

Makes you wonder if the air bags would actually fire sometimes.

They're a bit more likely to work when you apply full battery power instead of the micro-amps used to prove the continuity of the DETONATOR circuits, for some reason*.

[Xarlitos]

Thanks for the Tip Buck347,

My old pug as had all sorts of electrical issues, fortunatelly not the AirBag one (yet), so this will be extremelly usefull when that error appears (Yup, IT WILL appear, it wouldn't be French electrics if it didn't).