South Wales Cupras Chat

[Forbez]

You could sit in the back, and do it, If they do go off, you wont get a face full off space bar and qwerty then!

 

[Forbez]

I got clouted by a bull, cant sit down properly now.

Away in a foreign country with a load of boys, with lots of drink, then you come home saying you cant sit down, and blame it on a bull!

 

[jivejester]

I got some vids from the camera, filming stopped 30 secs into the run... i was more worried about dieing than recording. 110% better than last year.

Also ot some vids of rental car abuse, and pamplona party boy action.

 

[Forbez]

I wanna see those Video's!

 

[mr_D]

those vids will be interesting lol

 

[David_smith_909]

It has been asked several times in this forum about disabling airbags because of aftermarket seats, so I'll post this here.

Check for local regulations before performing any deactivation/reactivation. For example, Germany requires that this must be checked by an authorized test center and entry made in the vehicle documents.

This information is shared for persons working on cars and need to temporarily disable the airbags, or others with a need to do so (e.g. frequently carrying a small child in the front passenger seat). The airbags are there for safety, I recommend that they normally be enabled.

Note: this description is based on using VAG-COM from Ross-Tech and having prior experience using it. If using anything else you will have to adapt the instructions.

1) determine if your car can do this. Use VAG-COM (or equivalent) to access the airbag controller. Look at the Component box in the upper right corner. In the middle of the string you should see 'VWx' where x is a number. This number must be 5 or higher. Anything lower requires a special resistance kit installation (1J0 998 521). An exception to this is VW3 with part number 1J0 909 609. This controller does not require the resistance connector.

2) Click on 10-Adaptation

3) Click up for the channel number to get to channel 01. This is the passenger front airbag channel. The value is 0 (zero) for 'enabled'. Click the up arrow to make it a '1'. Click 'Save' and confirm the prompt. This will disable that airbag.

For the other airbags, disabling them is a matter of choosing a different channel.
1 - passenger front
2 - driver front (steering wheel)
3 - passenger side (seat airbag)
4 - driver side
5 - passenger belt tensioner
6 - driver belt tensioner
7 - passenger head
8 - driver head

Enabling the airbag is just a matter of performing the same steps but decrementing the channel value from 1 to 0.

When an airbag is disabled, the airbag light will light on the cluster for the normal 4 seconds when you first turn the starter key to the on position, then additionally flash for 12 seconds.

done this, i can safely say i do not have a broken nose

disabled the airbags and turned the ignition, waited 4 seconds, then light started flashing for 12 secs, but then it stayed on, and didnt go off

checked them all and their all disabled still

 

[PhilW]

Clear the fault codes as well dave.

 

[David_smith_909]

--goes back outside to check for faultcode--

 

[PhilW]

lmao.

 

[David_smith_909]

cleared the codes and the light came back on

re-enabled the 2 tensioners and rescanned and got the below codes

01281 - airbag drivers side disabled
01280 - airbag passanger side disabled
01284 - side airbag, drivers side disabled
01286 - side airbag, passanger side disabled

but............. after starting my engine, the light has now vanished

im going to re-enable my drivers and passanger dash airbags tomorrow and leave the seats disabled

 

[PhilW]

So theyre soft codes then which dont cause a light?

Try disabling the tensioners and seat bags only to see if you get the light.


Is it easy to do? Are the channels obvious to which ones are steering wheel air bag, tensioners etc...?

Might go and do it now.

 

[David_smith_909]

when the tensioners were disabled i got the light, but i didnt clear it and restart it to see if it came back
i just re-enabled them

its very simple to do, i followed your post, everything was obvious and only took a few mins

 

[PhilW]

That was piss easy to do.

I disabled, tensioners and side air bags no problems, went back out and cleared the codes, went baxk into adaption to check and all is well with the new values.

Started the car, airbag light flashed for about 10 seconds and stayed off.

 

[PhilW]

Oh yeah tom, my cable works with vista.

 

[Forbez]

Can i check it on mine one day, before i order one?

 

[PhilW]

Yeah no problems, you doing anything on friday night?


I got my cable from vagproducts.co.uk

 

[Forbez]

Nope dont think i am, although dunno what the misus has planned, but nothing i can think of at the mo.

 

[PhilW]

I got a few things i wanna do to the car friday night before the track day so your welcome to pop up.

 

[rogers]

i might pop dwn and watch if ur goin phil!

 

[davidol]

did somebody say trackday? that sat or sun? Im working on saturday but can slam um out to get to llandow earlyish...