After spend today doing this:

I now have an airbag fault light up and assume this is due to not disconnecting the battery :( something I have previously experienced problems with.

If I find someone with VCDS can they switch this off?

Yes, VCDS is the only way to clear the A/B fault.

There are 3 Briskoda members in or around Edinburgh who have VCDS. See below.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/262215-list-of-vcds-owners-previously-known-as-vag-com/

did you switch the ignition on without replacing the glovebox?

If so this will be why. It saw the switch was missing/unplugged and caused and error to log

After spend today doing this:

I now have an airbag fault light up and assume this is due to not disconnecting the battery :( something I have previously experienced problems with.

If I find someone with VCDS can they switch this off?

I did exactly the same thing 2 weeks ago (I also posted a topic asking about it). Took the glove box out to route a cable, forgot about the yellow connector, put it back togetherand went for drive - sure enough I had the dash warning light and the flashing "AIRBAG OFF" warning just below the heating controls.

I was aware what the switch did, but thought I wouldn't need to disconnect the battery as I wasn't working directly on an airbag. I suppose I would have been fine too if I hadn't been a div and forgotten to reconnect it.

its not due to not disconnecting the battery

its simply because you turned the ignition on with the airbag switch unplugged. Nothing more

Edited 30 May, 201313 yr by ryan-re

As a warning - normally the safety systems will be disabled if the Airbag light is on, so in the event of an impact you may find that the airbags and seatbelt pre-tensioners do not deploy.

So take care until you get the light re-set.

its not due to not disconnecting the battery

its simply because you turned the ignition on with the airbag switch unplugged. Nothing more

Sorry for confusion, I was trying to explain (very poorly) my two separate failings:

i) To be safe, probably should have disconnected the battery while working on something involving airbag wiring system

ii) Didn't reconnect yellow plug and turned ignition on.