Reusing seats when the airbags have gone off.

[anyideas]

Has anyone had experience of trying to re use an interior from a salvage vehicle where the airbags in the seats have gone off?

I've got the option of a complete leather interior for to replace my current part leather one. Both front seats have had their airbags deployed though and I'm wondering if its a big hassle that's worth avoiding?

[MissChief]

I'd have thought the ECU in the car will go mental as soon as you plug it in, believing there has been an accident it didn't know about?

[anyideas]

Can the seats be repaired?

[Horse Pop]

They may well not want to supply parts for this on the basis that if the bags went off then the seats could have structural damage.

[anyideas]

May just use the rear seat and door cards, I should be able to get the fronts recovered in the same colour and hopefully work out cheaper then recovering all of them.

[Fleckers]

can you not just strip the leather off the seats and refit it ?

[ezi]

Horse Pop said:

They may well not want to supply parts for this on the basis that if the bags went off then the seats could have structural damage.

I've seen breakers selling seats where the bags have been deployed.

[wemorgan]

Avoid buying the front seats as they are much more vulnerable to accident damage compared to the rears.

[mcford]

I would have thought that it'd be a case of swapping the airbags from your old seats into the new seats, to replace the ones that have gone off and getting the new covers re sewn with the weaker thread that they use in the areas where the airbags deploy. You will need to check that the airbags from your old seats will fit the new seats.

[Superhoop]

Are the airbag units and seat frames in your existing seats the same?

If so, have the bust seat covers restitched, and then use them on your current seats along with the new rears and door cards - should give you a nice cheap full leather interior

[dumfriesdave]

Bought parnter's Mazda 3 with seat airbag deployed.
Got replacement airbag from Ebay - just 3 bolts and wiring multiplug.

Took fabric cover off seat frame and took to local shoe-repair shop.
He stitched it back together so that is strong enough to withstand normal wear, yet will give way if airbag needs to explode. Cost - 5 beer tokens.

Put back on seat frame and you would never know.
Only other thing to do is either get the airbag module reset by main dealer, or I managed to get one from Ebay for under a tenner.

[anyideas]

The seats are from a 2010 freelander 2' mine is an 08 so fittings should be the same.

If the frames do suffer structural damage then its sounds like the best thing to do is re use the leather to re cover the existing seats.

I'd rather not take any chances.