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Airbag light on - Have you been affected? (UK)

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Re: Airbag light on - Have you been affected? (UK)

Post by ekimj10 » Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:46 pm

Just a follow up to my previous, the air bag light was sorted no problem but I now have a passenger seat belt warning light on with seat unoccupied. Ended up making a dummy seat clip for when I'm on my own, was either that or always have the seat let clip in place. Can't be a**ed to take it in again.
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Post by ryanwhite19 » Wed Nov 13, 2013 10:53 pm

My airbag light has just come on permanently ? Is there a solution to this at all ?

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Post by Adam D » Thu Nov 28, 2013 8:24 am

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Post by mac27040 » Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:30 pm

Check this link out to help diagnose fault
http://tis.bmwcats.com/doc1081039/
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Post by *jimmyj* » Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:49 pm

just came on, on mine. What does one do?

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Post by benben » Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:40 am

mac27040 wrote:Check this link out to help diagnose fault
http://tis.bmwcats.com/doc1081039/
The link is in what looks like Russian. Do we have this in English?
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Post by Zee3 » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:57 pm

During the test drive in the 3.0 auto I'm buying the airbag light came on. I'd been playing with the passenger seat adjustment quite a bit in the showroom beforehand, and the dealer thought it was because of that.

He's putting a years MOT on it so it would have needed to get fixed for that. Anyway, he's assured me that if it continues to be a problem after I've bought the car he'll look at it again

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Post by *jimmyj* » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:44 am

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Post by MiromusMaXimus » Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:09 pm

My airbag light came on couple weeks ago. Today local dealer checked fault codes (under voltage, suprice, suprice) and reset light. Drove back home and got back in, light was back on :headbang:
My dealer told me that there might be a problem with CAN bus. They recommended me to go to BMW and update all control system units ?! Has anyone heard that before?

Easiest way to fix this? I'm planning to sell my Z after this problem is sorted.

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Post by mac27040 » Fri Jan 24, 2014 11:07 pm

benben wrote:
mac27040 wrote:Check this link out to help diagnose fault
http://tis.bmwcats.com/doc1081039/
The link is in what looks like Russian. Do we have this in English?
http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... 1XwPm0CFOg

Try this


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Post by z4pilot » Mon Jan 27, 2014 1:48 pm

MIne came on a couple of weeks ago after I'd been moving the seats around to vac out the car. One trip to my indy and £20 lighter, the light has gone out and (so far) stayed out. The fault was flagging up as the passenger occupancy mat, so perhaps I have a slightly dodgy connection under the seat somewhere - time will tell....
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Post by CUREthe » Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:06 pm

The airbag light turns on yesterday in my Zed. :(

what do you think about that solution?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bypass-For-BM ... 232d5e2917

I think buy this bypass... If it works.
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Post by ryanwhite19 » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:16 pm

I have just done this on my 3.0si with m sport seats. Its not as easy as described. The correct emulator is £31 and you need to cut the grey cable under the seat and attach it to the emulator as their is no connection. The seat belt bypass is also different it says cut the wires and attach the resistor but this causea the airbag light to come on. So i left the wires connected and attached the resistor to it aswell. This has cured it. If you want a more detailed explanation and a link to the emulator give me a pm

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Post by CUREthe » Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:12 pm

ryanwhite19 wrote:I have just done this on my 3.0si with m sport seats. Its not as easy as described. The correct emulator is £31 and you need to cut the grey cable under the seat and attach it to the emulator as their is no connection. The seat belt bypass is also different it says cut the wires and attach the resistor but this causea the airbag light to come on. So i left the wires connected and attached the resistor to it aswell. This has cured it. If you want a more detailed explanation and a link to the emulator give me a pm
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Post by sw4nny » Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:42 pm

Air bag light on twice in last 2 months.1.After cleaning carpets .2 after taking passenger for a spirited ride.
Both times had code cleared by friendly indy garage.
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