Ford Fiesta airbag light

[tozerman]

Hi guys, My daughter has a P plate Fiesta 1.25 zetec, the airbag light flashes in intervals of 4 flashes, now I believe the fact that it keeps on flashing 4 times means a particular fault is at large, Do any of you learned ones out there have any idea what it is?
Cheers.....Tony..

[Phil Dicky]

tozerman said:

Hi guys, My daughter has a P plate Fiesta 1.25 zetec, the airbag light flashes in intervals of 4 flashes, now I believe the fact that it keeps on flashing 4 times means a particular fault is at large, Do any of you learned ones out there have any idea what it is?
Cheers.....Tony..

Whenever I have had airbag lights come on its usually been the seatbelt pre tensioner... I've just disconnected it and re connected it to cure the fault..
Couild be wrong and someone with more insight might correct me.

[tozerman]

That sounds like it is worth a try, my daughter is at work at the moment but I will have a stab at it tomorrow night.
Cheers......Tony..

[DennisTheMenace]

The connector is under the plastic trim between the seat and the door sill. and the 4 flashes is pretensioner so do both seats and it should go away

[Iddingtons]

Aren't I right in thinking you have to disconnect the battery and wait a while to discharge the back-up power supply before going anywhere near the pre-tensioners or air bag system?

Just thought I'd mention it in case....I'm about to be checking the control module on my fiesta and thats what I'd been told anyway.

Id.

[DennisTheMenace]

Yep , disconnect the battery and give it half an hour , should be fine after that

[tozerman]

I had a go last night and it cured the problem so thanks for that, however I did it before I read the last two postings about the battery but all seems ok so I will keep my fingers crossed.
Cheers.....Tony..

[Iddingtons]

I wouldn't worry regarding the last couple of posts if everything seems fine now. The result would have been fairly obvious if it'd gone wrong as all the airbags would have triggered There is a backup power supply (i.e. a capacitor) in the airbag system which can trigger them if interrupted or the airbag is messed with as it makes the car think its in a crash.

If you did the job and nothing went off then it'll be fine. I think it only takes a couple of minutes to discharge, its just safer to leave it longer than get it wrong.

Glad its all sorted, hopefully I'll be able to sort mine this weekend!

Id.

[Phil Dicky]

DennisTheMenace said:

Yep , disconnect the battery and give it half an hour , should be fine after that

I shall remember that one, could be fun if you they all go off, and a touch expensive

[FinallyVXRed]

Hi all Can anyone tell me the location of the airbag module itself (r reg fiesta 1.2) beofre I dismantle the whole car

Thanks

[DennisTheMenace]

Under the centre console on the floor near the gearstick .

[FinallyVXRed]

Ok thanks I'll have another look. I had the center console off before posting but couldn't see it. Is it under all the fibre sound dampening sheets or should it be more noticeable?

[DennisTheMenace]

It should be easy enough to see , will look like this ...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-FIESTA-MK4-5-PUMA-AIRBA...