seat belt light-help please

[cabbron]

hi guys,wondering if anyone can estol their wisdom,my s1 seatbelt light flases on and off in the corners.bit like a traction control light-jeepers what a thought.can anyone help.cheers in advance.

[purpleperil]

Slight hijack - sorry - Mine doesn't seem to work at all?! I don't know if it should (MY06 111R). Only appears to come on when I first turn on ignition then extinguishes and doesn't come on whether seat belt fitted or not when driving. There doesn't seem to be an electrical connection to the buckle but maybe I'm not looking hard enough?

[S works]

There is a wire that runs from the drivers buckle under the seat. It can get caught and fray. Have a good look, probably frayed and the connection is going on and off as it wiggles around.

[speedyellow]

Purple, if you have a sports pack or performance pack (lost track of what they call it now) with the harness bar fitted then the light does go out very quickly after the car is started as you might be wearing the harness.

[purpleperil]

speedyellow said:

Purple, if you have a sports pack or performance pack (

I wish! No - only touring pack - looks like its another thing to add to the snags list then?

[shangani]

S2's do not have a wire to the seatbelt - just a light that flashes a few times and goes off. The S1 - as in the original question - does have a wire and this must have a dodgy connection on the circuit.

[Sublime]

Mine decided one day to stop working, turned out that the wire is joined under the seat by a bullet connector that had worked itself loose, probably caused by the seat being moved everytime I got in and out. If you put the drivers seat fully forward you can get to it from the passenger side and take a look. Just needed to put mine back together and tape it up to stop it happening again.

[TonyHetherington]

shangani said:

S2's do not have a wire to the seatbelt - just a light that flashes a few times and goes off. The S1 - as in the original question - does have a wire and this must have a dodgy connection on the circuit.

Yup - what he said. My MY04 111S doesn't have a connection from the seat or seat belt to the car. Simply, you turn the engine on and it flashes a few times; nothing too complicated about it!

[cabbron]

thanks for the advice,job for tomorrow look at that connection/wire.