As above been looking at a new baby seat for my daughter but there isn't a lot of room in the back. I know you can put the kids in the front IF you can turn the airbag off with the vagcom.

Any advise would be helpful

Cheers Ant

Just use the key in the airbag deactivate switch. Think it's in the glovebox. That's where it is on mine.

Phil

My Leon had a key slot in the glovebox, but I don't think my Fabia does, as the keyslot should be where the cold air vent is...

It was an optional extra. Glad I picked it when I bought mine.

Ah right.

Is it on the side of the dashboard inside the passenger door... or am I thinking of peugeots and citroens?!

Phil

Airbag off switch was a dealer option on the vRS when it was new.

Either you have it if it was specced (I do...)

Or you don't.

Retro fit would require a new glovebox and some vagcomming

if it can be done. .

You can also just disable the passenger airbag with VCDS. I'll do that for you of you drop in Ant

Ah right.

Is it on the side of the dashboard inside the passenger door... or am I thinking of peugeots and citroens?!

Phil

inside the glovebox. Can't miss it if you have one.

Oh well.

Pretty sure it could be deactivated with vag com but no idea how.

It was standard on my car it seems.

Phil

Yeah, airbags can be disabled individually with VCDS.

Thank you for your replys but my vrs doesn't have it, how would it be to turn off

Fine as long as you only ever have a child carry seat fitted there.

But just say you had a passenger sat there instead and you then have a crash.

Permanently disabling safety features is probably something your insurer wouldn't

look at favourably. Worst case scenario, and your passenger dies. You'll be

eye deep in the brown stuff. I suppose you could end up in chokey too.

I'd leave it alone if it were me or get the full conversion done so you can switch it back

on again when needed. Dunno how easy that is or expensive. But IMO it ain't worth the risk.

Would prob be cheaper to get vagcom & netbook to keep in glovebox?

Passenger airbags aren't mandatory equipment (I don't think?) so you'd probably be fine? I drive around with no drivers' airbag (declared to insurance) and they've never suggested it would be a problem legally (else I wouldn't do it).

I would say the risk of an adult being involved in an accident with no airbag is outshadowed by the risk of forgetting to turn it off with a child seat in, and I'd probably take that risk. Adults survived car crashes as passengers before airbags were invented, and there's still the extra strength of the modern car, seatbelt technology, etc to help their chances. An airbag hitting a rear-facing seat is far more likely to be deadly or at least cause very severe injury. Just my opinion, you obviously have your own and I'm not necessarily trying to claim I'm right over all others.

hmm thanks again, i think i will have to try which seat will fit in the fabia vrs, i know it can get costly in baby seats. it would be a forward facing one.

Looks like the quote feature has stopped working for me just at present hence: [ SORTED ]

Airbag off switch was a dealer option on the vRS when it was new.

Either you have it if it was specced (I do...)

Or you don't.

Retro fit would require a new glovebox and some vagcomming

if it can be done. .

I hope you don't mind me publishing a small correction to that. According to Fabia brochures I have, it was factory-fit option not dealer-fit - and cost £60

Edited 4 July, 201213 yr by DRJ

That's kinda what I meant. I meant the car had to have it specced

at point of order. My bad.

It's listed on my original receipt as an option.

I have £51.06 plus VAT at 17.5%

hmm thanks again, i think i will have to try which seat will fit in the fabia vrs, i know it can get costly in baby seats. it would be a forward facing one.

Maxxi cosi fits in the back fine, Don't think you can forward face til about a year by which time you'd need a new one anyhow

also don't bother with the iso fix base `another £120 ontop then you'll have to buy another one at 1yr

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Maxxi cosi fits in the back fine, Don't think you can forward face til about a year by which time you'd need a new one anyhow

also don't bother with the iso fix base `another £120 ontop then you'll have to buy another one at 1yr

shes going to be two next month, that's why the question buddy