Air bag light bypass
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Air bag light bypass
I'm getting fed up of the drivers airbag igniter high voltage warning coming up, is there any bypass for this, i.e. Rewire, resistors????
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Re: Air bag light bypass
Probably best to find out the cause of the fault and put it right. Quite apart from it being illegal to drive a car with a defective air bag there is also the little matter of staying alive when some twit drives into you.
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Re: Air bag light bypass
+1. Find the cause and fix it.
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Re: Air bag light bypass
It will get repaired after the crash surely?
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Re: Air bag light bypass
It's not had a crash and I'm going round in circles changing related items and pretty sure it's a fault in the actual seat/side airbag but don't fancy stumping up for either the seat or airbag
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Re: Air bag light bypass
Step 1: find the fault (i.e. with an OBD diagnostic tool)
Step 2: find the cause (i.e. broken wire, short circuit, broken switch, broken airbag)
Step 3: solve
Step 2: find the cause (i.e. broken wire, short circuit, broken switch, broken airbag)
Step 3: solve
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Re: Air bag light bypass
Thanks for your help
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Re: Air bag light bypass
Bypassing the air bag light isn’t the answer. High ignition voltage can actually prevent the air bag deploying in a crash. I wouldn’t want to risk ignoring something that could save my life.
There was a similar issue on mk5 golfs where the connector under the seat caused high resistance and had to by bypassed with crimps under a VW recall
There was a similar issue on mk5 golfs where the connector under the seat caused high resistance and had to by bypassed with crimps under a VW recall