airbags

scotrover · Post by **scotrover** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:19 am

Guys

Does anyone know how to switch the front airbags off so that i can put my daughters baby seat in the front????

cheers dudes

TurboMG · Post by **TurboMG** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:20 am

What car???

scotrover · Post by **scotrover** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:23 am

vitty sport m8 96 twin airbag

mach1rob · Post by **mach1rob** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:47 am

You can't, kiddies in the back I'm afraid

chr15e · Post by **chr15e** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:48 am

Could always rip them out and fit a non air bag dash.

Post by **Punx0r** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:51 am

I'd suggest pulling the SRS fuse but this might might upset the system and require a costly reset

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:03 pm

chr15e wrote:Could always rip them out and fit a non air bag dash.

No, better than that, take out the airbag and cover and build a pod with gauges in it. I'm planning to fit an LCD screen to use when my vid camera is mounted in the car. I will leave the cover in place when I'm not using the car so no-one sees the screen.

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:44 pm

Surely he could just disconnect it?

IIRC you disconnect the battery for 20 mins, then pull the plug on it. Then reconnect the battery. of course, it cant just be switched on again, but atleast the kid can go in the front.

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:45 pm

Thinking about it, the SRS light would come on and fail the MOT I suppose.. so I'd guess replacing it with a resistor would be the answer? May be worth seeing what people do to solve this prob when fitting non SRS steering wheels.

BlueRover · Post by **BlueRover** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:32 pm

SRS isn't an MOT point is it ?

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:38 pm

If the SRS light stays on it's an MOT fail IIRC, if the light doesn't come on and go off again with engine startup I think it's a fail too (so no removing of the bulb). Somebody on here wired the bulb up to the oil light I believe, which I thought was a pretty good idea, lol.

Squaddiemodo · Post by **Squaddiemodo** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:41 pm

SRS light on does not affect the MOT, only the ABS light dies that

chr15e · Post by **chr15e** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:01 pm

BlueRover wrote:No, better than that, take out the airbag and cover and build a pod with gauges in it. I'm planning to fit an LCD screen to use when my vid camera is mounted in the car. I will leave the cover in place when I'm not using the car so no-one sees the screen.

Like the sound of that. A mate of mine is planning something similar for his PS2 etc.

uusmatt · Post by **uusmatt** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:06 pm

How about hiding a switch somewhere?

A resistor on 1 side and the airbag on the other so you can choose whether to have it on or not?

Post by **Punx0r** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:37 pm

For the sake of a child's safety I'd rather just put the baby in the back

Sheaf · Post by **Sheaf** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:59 pm

Punx0r wrote:For the sake of a child's safety I'd rather just put the baby in the back

Now there's thinking outside the box :!:

scotrover · Post by **scotrover** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:51 am

Baby has been going in the back. no way would i risk putting her in the front with the airbags on...

Thought there might be a way to switch them off tho so she can ride shotgun with her Dad

nightfire18 · Post by **nightfire18** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:49 am

so i take it thats the same as a ti then coz i cant find bugeer all yet in my misses clio she got a key hole in the handle of her door which turns it off bloody va-va-voom my donkey boy

tenpole · Post by **tenpole** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:02 pm

My car went through an MOT with the SRS light on. It is not an MOT failure.

s1njon · Post by **s1njon** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:29 am

i was going to put a post on about this but this 1 seems to cover it as im after doing the same thing, we want to unplug the air bag so our son can go in the front, it does seem less hastle to put him in the back but we dont like it as we can get to him if we are in the car on our own with him. there must be a way of discanecting the air bag. we have a Ti tho not a vitty (yet)

Post by **Punx0r** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:09 pm

I guess the big question is whether the passenger airbag can be disconnected without the whole system throwing a wobbly and deactivating the driver's airbag and all the seat-belt pretensioners? I suspect not, as the system knows what resistance the airbags etc are supposed to have and will test them at system start-up. An appropriate valve resistor in place of the passenger airbag may well work.

radddogg · Post by **radddogg** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:41 am

Sheaf wrote: Somebody on here wired the bulb up to the oil light I believe, which I thought was a pretty good idea, lol.

I did that too, lol.

Balocom · Post by **Balocom** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:58 pm

If the kid is under 1 year on a litle bit more, it's beter for the neck to be in the front. Why? Because the head vs. body weight ratio is difrent than by adult's, then it would pull the head of he child tho front and broke the neck when siting in the direcion of driving.

IMO I would also put the child in the back (maybe with a seat in the oposite direction of driving)