Is there any way of getting rid of it quickly like removing a fuse as I dont have vag com and taxi test due Tuesday

Came out and started up and it stayed on checked all cables under seat there ok

There is a driver who has just had his cab tested and he had a light on his dash will ask tonight.

I dont know if it will pass taxi test with it on, how easy is it to remove the bulb, or is there anything eles that can be removed.

I know that at the outer edge of the seats there are removable pannels, and inside you can see the plugs for the airbag cables that go under the seats if you disconect the cables there would they still throw up a warning???

I think that if I was travelling in your taxi and there was an accident and the airbags didn't deploy because you'd removed a fuse or because you hadn't had a fault repaired...I'd have a very strong view that you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law both through the civil courts and criminal courts... Is the taxi test not there for a reason?

Only my opinion of course, others might be happy to travel like that?

Will VC show where the fault is??? or is it guess work even with the fault code

I think that if I was travelling in your taxi and there was an accident and the airbags didn't deploy because you'd removed a fuse or because you hadn't had a fault repaired...I'd have a very strong view that you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law both through the civil courts and criminal courts... Is the taxi test not there for a reason?

Only my opinion of course, others might be happy to travel like that?

Jesus you sound a barrel of laughs to live with :wonder:

I'm sure he wants to get it through the test then he can get it repaired straight away, i have a mate who owns several taxi's 's done the same.

Stop being anal

I think it will fail the Taxi test is the light is on (its stricter than the MoT). We have had taxi drivers ask us to put the SRS light out and there is no way other than sticking black tape over it!

Stripping down the intrument pod is not really practical, and if you undo any connectors the warning light will still stay on and another fault code will be added.

You need to code read and the fault fixed. Common troublespots on these are the connectors under the seats and the clockspring unit.

Anal?

What do you think the outcome would be if there was a fatal accident then and the police carried out a full examination of the car? Well...one outcome could be that the OP is facing a trial for manslaughter...but if that's me being anal then I apologise. As I said, only may view and I won't comment any further.

I can confirm what Mike says regarding life being to short,

I will get it sorted tomorrow when the garage I use opens, hopefully it was only the cable under the seat that was disturbed when I moved the front seat so that a 20 stone outhouse could sit in it

Graham , i had this a good while ago , i have a gadget that cleared the code but it kept coming back ,cables looked fine tho , what i did was wrap an elastic band around each side of the connection so it was under tension ,never seen it since , hth mate

That's it cleared hopefully, fault was wire under my seat, must have hit a pot hole and the plug must have come apart slightly with the jolt, just enough to throw a fault, got it done for free, MC also ran a full scan and no other faults showed

Edited 21 March, 201115 yr by skippy41

Took it for its taxi test and it failed on a minute split in the CV boot, grease had wept out slightly, getting it changed and car will pass today

While there asked the tester regarding airbag warning light, and he said its would have only been an advisory as its not part of the MOT test and would have passed

Edited 22 March, 201115 yr by skippy41

Good result skippy! Did you need it re-coding through VCDS after you found the disconnection?

I fitted a Parrot Blurtooth kit today which is working great, however a run tonight and the airbag light is on; I did have the glovebox off & out so maybe something got disturbed. I'll remove it and have another gander at the end of the week.

Soon to be part of the mot though :(

That's it cleared hopefully, fault was wire under my seat, must have hit a pot hole and the plug must have come apart slightly with the jolt, just enough to throw a fault, got it done for free, MC also ran a full scan and no other faults showed

This was a common fault on Vauxhall 3-door models - the sliding of the seat backwards and forwards to let rear seat passengers in and out played havoc with the seatbelt pre-tensioner connector, and the airbag light would come on.

Simple fix - use a tie wrap to hold the two halves of the connector together and the light doesn't come back on again! At least as it was the seatbelt pre-tensioner you didn't need to keep resetting the light!