Hi everyone.
I have a mk2.5 and recently removed my airbag steering wheel so I have changed my seatbelt for one from a mk1 so it doesn’t have a pretensioner. This has obviously caused the airbag warning light so I want to fit a resistor to trick the system. My problem is I can’t find much information about which resistor to use. I have found a write up saying to use 4 x 10ohm resistors but this hasn’t worked.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
With the new MOT (and the old one ) is this not fraught with danger ?
Hi
airbags are normally somewhere between 2.2 ohm - 3.3 ohm
buy some assorted ones of the net there only pence each
dont forget you need to reset the system when you try them everytime as airbag systems dont self reset
other option is remove the airbag light .
You would hope so wouldnt you ,
but air bag light can only be failed for staying on and showing a fault , you can only advice it for not coming on at all
you can also fail a car for air bags missing when fitted as standard but theres no info for specific vehicle fitments so this can vary from station to station .
I plan on having to put the steering wheel back on if and when it fails the mot but, changing the seatbelt back is a lot more work as it is bolted in quite deeply to the roll bar. I’ve had the mk1 seatbelt restored and re webbed so it’s fine to use. I just don’t want the light on
Thanks for the info. I was thinking about just removing the light but I was worried that the system would still be in am error state due to the missing seatbelt. I assuming that if the system is registering an error then if I did have a smash then the passenger airbag and seatbelt pretensioner wouldn’t deploy.
I don’t mind messing with my safety as my theory is I ride a motorbike everyday so it has to be safer than that, but I don’t want to mess with my passengers safety.
Do you know if that’s correct?
You are correct and if the system is fooled then the remaining bags will deploy in the event of an accident.