View Full Version : Air Bag / Seat Belt light on after Seat Change


learjet
06-18-2007, 12:57 AM
Can anyone tell me how to get rid of the Airbag/ Seat belt light on my 325IS. Originally car had Electric seats, Those have been replaced with manual seats. This is when this light came on. I cant be the first one to change seats in a 1994 325IS. Any help is appriciated
Thanks
Phil

promp3
06-18-2007, 03:03 AM
did you swap out for some after market seats or onother set of factory seats?
I am not positive about what they did in 94 but your seats could of had seatbelt tensioners and ocupancy sensors. they need to be hooked up for your srs to work properly the way it was designed. if the red airbag light is on you air bag is disabled.

did you unhook the battery before unpluging the original seats? you need to do that or the lights will turn on will need to be reset with a scan tool.
if you can't plug that stuff back in you can: 1 remove the lights from the instrament cluster or 2 use a resistor to trick the system into thinking that the seat belts and every thing are in the circut when they really arn't. do a search a few people have don't that Im sure.

russiamutha
06-18-2007, 01:09 PM
you need an SRS tool to reset the lights.

Critter7r
06-18-2007, 05:32 PM
The red airbag light on does not necessarily mean your airbag is disabled. It would only be disabled if the fault in the system is with the airbag. If the fault is with the seatblet tensioner, the airbag will still fire, but the tensioner won't do it's bit. The part that is causing the fault is the part that won't operate when it's supposed to. Or, if the fault is with the passenger occupancy sensor (the car can't tell if there's someone in the seat or not) the default is for the airbag to fire, so it would fire unneccessarily.

And you might not be the first to change seats in an E36, but not many people that want to swap their electrics for manual seats are worried about airbag lights.