david cliff jones

HI
I am about to remove my airbag seats on my bugeye and replace with non
airbag seats from an sti .I have not yet aquired some 3.3 ohm resistors but
will do next week, apart from the airbag light remaining on which i can
live with for the time being what else could happen,will the rest of the
airbags still work or go off etc.

Dave

daz1968

iTrader: (13)

no idea, but resisters are available from Maplins, they are open Sundays so if one near to you can be sorted tomorrow. I did this to mine and have had them give a bad connection sometimes, so may cut plugs off loom and solder them on to prevent any MOT issues.

david cliff jones

Cheers daz
Unfortunately nearest maplins to here is about 80 miles as for the mot
issue airbag light is not a failure but maybe an advisory the abs light on dash
is a mot fail as my son in law had afew weeks ago.

Dave

Stuart Page

iTrader: (4)

The ECU uses separate channels for the frontal airbags, so will just pop up as a fault code with the side circuit.

Stuart Page

iTrader: (4)

Bit of advice, tell the insurance co about the change, they may be 'picky' in the event of an accident if they see the seats are changed.

Also you may need to visit a subaru garage to get the airbag ecu reset to clear the warning lamp after you've fitted resistors to those circuits.

david cliff jones

Went to the parts dept at subaru dealer for resistors when told the price of
£8.50 each i fainted but the paramedics soon had me back on my feet.Got
some from shaun at Fullspeed IT tel no 01482 778440
cost 99 pence for packet of 50 amazing value job done.Thanks for replies

Dave