SRS seats

[ejenner]

If you take out a set of air-bag seats and fit non-airbag seats and the SRS light comes on do you still fail your MOT?

How do you get around that?

[VWDaz86]

yep it fails, srs has to self-test and then stay unlit unless the car has been modified and in a proper way i.e genuine rally car.

you'll need to fit resistors to fool the system into "seeing" airbags and then clear the light using a scan tool.

[ejenner]

Hmm. Or skin the old seats and leave the airbags under the seat!

[itcaptainslow]

ejenner said:

Hmm. Or skin the old seats and leave the airbags under the seat!

[ejenner]

Well they're pi55 easy to remove from the OEM seats, about 2 or 3 minutes per seat.

SRS light is off.

But now there are a couple of explosive devices flailing around in the cabin, guess I could bolt them to the underside of the new cross-member I installed and point them forwards. That way, if they do go off they'll be pointing forwards and the airbag will deploy between seat and floor.

Stupid that you have to do this if you want to change your seats... but there we are.

[Impasse]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcvwWUZ0PA

[ejenner]

That's brilliant, the new version of the woppee cushion. How times have changed.

Seat airbags don't get that big though, do they?

Yeah, here's a pic which puts it nicely into perspective.