airbag light Q

[soccerbrace]

Hey all, I have a question. I took out my seatbelts, and my airbag light is now blinking.

Does this mean that the airbags are disabled? If so, is there any way I can enable them again without putting the stock seatbelts back in?

And if the ARE still enabled, then do they HAVE to have that light? It is blinking and I want to remove it. I know that some vehicles HAVE to see that certain lights for certain accessories to work. Is this the case with airbags? I just want to know if removing the light will disable the airbags?

[nissandoms47]

With your seatbelts was their a harness that connected to them? If the airbag light is blinking that means something is wrong with the system and the airbag system isnt working and wont deploy in the case of an accident. You cant remove the airbag light on the cluster.

[Eric P]

The new gen airbags rely on the seatbelt sensor. They measure how far they are extended to determine how fast they deploy.

No seatbelt sensor signal = no airbag deployment.

[DamnHippie]

Are you sure this isn't from removing/replacing your seats, as opposed to seatbelts? The passenger seat has a weight sensor in it to decide if an adult (versus a child car seat) is in it, at least on some models/years.

[soccerbrace]

Are you sure this isn't from removing/replacing your seats, as opposed to seatbelts? The passenger seat has a weight sensor in it to decide if an adult (versus a child car seat) is in it, at least on some models/years.

I am positive that it isn't from the seatbelt plug under the seat. I had the seats in for a week or two with the stock seatbelts. I put the new 3pt. harnesses in last night.

The front seat belts had a plug where they plugged into the seat belt retracting mechanism in the B-pillar. I removed the stock seat belts 2 days ago, and that is when the blinking light came on.

Ok, so the airbags will not come on unless that is plugged in, got it.

Can I just take a wire and loop it around to itself to act as a jumper to turn off the light?

[Allen Cox]

It has to have a certain resistance to it. If you already disconnected it, the connector has a jumper built into it to let the computer know what you've done. You have to have a resistor in the circuit. I believe it's around 3 ohms. Check the resistance on your seat belt connectors to know.

Also, your old seat belts were deployable. That is, they have pretensioners built into them, as part of the air bag system. If the computer sees the need for the airbags, it will deploy the pretensioner in the seat belts to get your body in the correct position before deploying the air bags.

Once you put the resistor in the circuit, you'll have to clear the codes to get the system back into operation.