Hi all,
I believe this topic has come up in the past, many moons ago, however discussion was brief at the time.
Anyway, I'm looking for a way to deactivate the air bag on passengers side.
If that fails, both airbags.
Ideal situation is to deactivate only the passengers side, and be able to turn it back on again.
If you pull the fuse #42 (seems to be same fuse number for Airbag in the 5 series of same vintage interestingly), does that disable all airbags? Then putting fuse back in again turns them back on?
Last time I pulled fuses in a car and stuck new ones in was in the 90s on my old 1986 Honda Civic (I saw one in London the other day - Honda microwave, brilliant car!). Anyway, I digress. Fuse technology may have moved on a bit since 1986.
I've had the common fault with the passenger seat mat whereby the air bag light comes on and can only be reset by a clever diy'er or my indy mechanic.
So wonder if a similar fault would present itself in the airbag system if you pulled said fuse.
Reason being I would like to take my kid out in her car seat on the very odd occassion. Slightly depressing thought to have to wait until she and the little fellow that follows her round the house are 12 before they can come for a ride in the "fancy blue car".
I've read online there are a few fixes out there - none I'd try myself but would pay to have the garage do the work if I thought it could be done.
I believe this topic has come up in the past, many moons ago, however discussion was brief at the time.
Anyway, I'm looking for a way to deactivate the air bag on passengers side.
If that fails, both airbags.
Ideal situation is to deactivate only the passengers side, and be able to turn it back on again.
If you pull the fuse #42 (seems to be same fuse number for Airbag in the 5 series of same vintage interestingly), does that disable all airbags? Then putting fuse back in again turns them back on?
Last time I pulled fuses in a car and stuck new ones in was in the 90s on my old 1986 Honda Civic (I saw one in London the other day - Honda microwave, brilliant car!). Anyway, I digress. Fuse technology may have moved on a bit since 1986.
I've had the common fault with the passenger seat mat whereby the air bag light comes on and can only be reset by a clever diy'er or my indy mechanic.
So wonder if a similar fault would present itself in the airbag system if you pulled said fuse.
Reason being I would like to take my kid out in her car seat on the very odd occassion. Slightly depressing thought to have to wait until she and the little fellow that follows her round the house are 12 before they can come for a ride in the "fancy blue car".
I've read online there are a few fixes out there - none I'd try myself but would pay to have the garage do the work if I thought it could be done.
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