Airbag light on

[James_N]

Hi all

I've been tasked with selling my dad's Ssanyong Korando. He has just purchased a motorhome after a stroke and found caravanning too much, so the 4x4 is surplus to requirements.

Obviously I want to get a 12 month ticket on it. The only stumbling block is that the airbag light is on.

My only exp of this was in a Renault Clio where it happened to be the wiring under the seat causing the problem.

My old man said he's had a local mechanic look at it who couldn't get to the bottom of it but he does move the front seats back and forth in the past depending how much crap he's been carrying around in the back.

Is the seat wiring a good place to try and start?

It's a 2014 model.

Thank you
James

[Pastor Of Muppets]

Best place to start would be plugging in a good SRS code reader, it should be able to identify the location of the problem, rectify the problem, then
erase the fault codes, light off. Even if you fixed say a poor seat wiring connection chances are you will still need the code reader
to clear the stored fault codes and put the airbag light off.

[James_N]

Pastor Of Muppets said:

Best place to start would be plugging in a good SRS code reader, it should be able to identify the location of the problem, rectify the problem, then
erase the fault codes, light off. Even if you fixed say a poor seat wiring connection chances are you will still need the code reader
to clear the stored fault codes and put the airbag light off.

Thank you. I've tried one of these cheap Bluetooth obd code readers and they didn't even list Ssanyong. I guess I'll have to try something more expensive maybe?

[M4cruiser]

Some of the cheaper code readers do EML codes, but not airbag or ABS codes.
Mine for example, which was £35 off ebay.

yes you need one which specifically does airbag codes.

[James_N]

Thank you

I'll get looking!

[Polly Grigora]

Yes, seat wiring check first followed by steering column clockspring

[E-bmw]

Don't waste time doing anything until you know what the codes say.

Until you do that you are just p!ssing in the wind as, even if you accidentally sort the issue the light will still be on.