On my first Felicia, I did a complete remake/rebuild of the dashbord, including a wrapping with a soft vinyl (nappa).

Standard Felicia dashboard looks awful and gives a claustrophobic feel !

It was a 1994 model, with no passenger airbag. Good car for many year's.

Recently I was forced to find a cheap car fast, and chose the well known Felicia again.

This time a little newer.

Mening it's got a passenger airbag, and no space to stash stuff anymore...

Dashboard is still awfull looking.

So would like to redo the dashboard. Due to the airbag it cannot be as intensive as last time, and I cannot hinder the functionality of the airbag.

In order not to make the passenger airbag a death-trap, I would like to know exactly how the plastic-lid and the airbag itself, acts and moves when fired.

Is the lid hinged in the top or bottom, or is it a loos part, that gets fired in your face..., or what ?

It will hinged top and/or bottom, but it's not something I'd fancy experimenting with!

It will hinged top and/or bottom, but it's not something I'd fancy experimenting with!

If it's hinged in the top, then there is no problem in giving the lid a layer of vinyl, as long as movement is not obstructed !

Any video's of a firing passenger airbag on a Felicia ?

I would have thought they would have been hinged top and bottom with a weak centre line.

Though I'm probably wrong lol

Edited 18 January, 201016 yr by Bertee

I need someone to do me a favor, and go crash their Felly

If it's top/bottom hinged, with a weak centerline, then the vinyl covering has got to be open at that location to...

So I really need the correct 100% accurate answer to: What's the passenger airbag-lid designed to do, when the airbag fires ???

just disconnect it

i am fairly sure that it is hinged top and bottom, you should be able to see if you are going to remove the dash to cover it anyway

just disconnect it

i am fairly sure that it is hinged top and bottom, you should be able to see if you are going to remove the dash to cover it anyway

And then glue one of those self-inflatable lifejackets to the modified dashboard..., with a little "Pour water on, just before crash

It's a summerproject (-10 celcius right now :( and windy...)

And as you say, I'l now when i remove the dashboard.

Dunno if there's any clues here

Is it legal to perm remove an airbag?

I'm sure there'd also be insurance issues, as it would be notifiable.

you can't just unplug it, it will bring an airbag warning light on the dash which i believe is an MOT failure... however rumour has it that you can just attach a resistor across the ends of the plug to fool the airbag controller into thinking there is something there :wonder: allegedly..... off hand i don't know the value of the resistor but a trip to a scrapyard with a multimeter put accross a scrap airbag should tell you, carefull you dont blow it up in your face though

you can't just unplug it, it will bring an airbag warning light on the dash which i believe is an MOT failure... however rumour has it that you can just attach a resistor across the ends of the plug to fool the airbag controller into thinking there is something there :wonder: allegedly..... off hand i don't know the value of the resistor but a trip to a scrapyard with a multimeter put accross a scrap airbag should tell you, carefull you dont blow it up in your face though

I've no intension of unplugging or removing the airbag.

It's to be fully funktional.

Only reason to disable passenger airbag would be, if a childseat (backwards turned) is to be mounted in the passenger seat.

But that's not the case here.

Just wanna mod the dashboard, so it dosn't look like some cheap item from Toy's"R"us...

lol i didn't mean to permanently unplug it, i thought if you unplugged it and removed it you would be able to see the underside of the dash and see where the hinges are..

airbag light is not a mot fail tom but abs is

OK, I had a spare passenger airbag from a car I broke for spares. And got bored and set it off. And videoed it. First up is a steering wheel one, then the passenger one.

The passenger one is a LOT more pokey! You'd not want to mess with this, I'd be careful of what I was doing with the dash if I were you! Can't remember the dash cover setup for certain, I thought it was a pop-out panel that was tethered with seatbelt-type material, but I've taken a lot of things apart in my time, and my memory is rubbish for stuff I'm not that interested in.

Now, what are you people doing in my living room?

You blew one up rather than sell it?

They're expensive spares.

Yes. Yes I did. I tried selling it for about a year, no-one was interested. So I blew it up!

i have a brand new one if ya want it....

prob end up cable tying it under someones chair at work and setting it off one dinner tine

i have a brand new one if ya want it....

prob end up cable tying it under someones chair at work and setting it off one dinner tine

Don't forget to film it for youtube!

The video of blowing up the airbags was good! Quite an expensive explosion though!

Just found a picture.

The airbag lid in the passenger side, is hinged at the top with a piece of seatbelt-like fabric.

So if I choose to do some upholstering, I just leave the existing cracks open, so that the lid can come off, unhindered.

Wondering if I could fit a 1995 VW Polo dashboard in the skoda ???

If the screen curve and interior width are similar, the biggest issue is going to be getting the support brackets right.