Hi wondering if anyone can help, my Fabia mk2 airbag error came up, using obdeleven wouldn’t clear the fault. Looking at online help lots were saying wire at door hinge usually breaks but took to dealership as have extended warranty. They saying the wire from hinge doesn’t connect to airbag sensor on my model and rather the wire feeds from somewhere else. Anyway anyone have any insight please?

48 minutes ago, babymanor said:

They saying the wire from hinge doesn’t connect to airbag sensor on my model and rather the wire feeds from somewhere else.

The sidebags are in the seat backs, so why would they need connected through the door bellows?

?

Have you checked the connector under the seat, or did the person at the Dealership that came to look at your car, or have they not had anyone look?

Hi no I didn’t have a clue on location, I did read later someone saying he had a similar problem and it was the fitted seat protectors elastic had prised the connection apart. I rang the dealership who couldn’t confirm if it had been checked but why would they tell me something that simple when they can probably charge hundreds for a repair 

9 hours ago, babymanor said:

the fitted seat protectors elastic had prised the connection apart.

That sounds believable; just another reason for not fitting seat covers to cars with side bags.

Rather common is people vacuuming or brushing the carpet under the seat or trying to find something and then the airbag light showing. 

If you have extended warranty, why are the dealers not looking into, testing and fixing the issue?

 

That said, I have seen some people say certain OBD code readers will code out the fault, others will not. I think it depends on if they are the VAG version.

 

I had an older, plain tool that would not do this and set my own airbag light off by pulling a fuse and once the light is on, it stays on!

 

I was given trick to try by a specialist, which I can send you but not unless you want it but it failed to put my light out. (May or may not work-hit and miss). 

I then looked around and came across a tool that said it should do the job so I purchased one and although it took a good week to arrive, after reading the users instructions, I took it to the car and had the light off again in just a few mins. The specialist was going to charge me £45, plus VAT to do it but when I looked around, i found the tool for £37 and I get to keep it for other issues!

The tool is an XTool V401 Scanner (VW version). I purchased it from XTool's own website as on the "Bay", they started from around £45!

 

I will most likely put up a post about this as others who may not read this, may need to erase a code or two!

Hi all turned out to be faulty airbag sensor and all covered by warranty 

Thats a fantastic result!

Just FYI, The door looms are often a major PITA on many cars across the VAG range, so if you get any electrical gremlins, such as mirrors, windows, central locking, etc, start from the loom inside the door bellows looking for either fractured or even fully snapped wires. That can be hard to spot so a close up look inside both front door looms may be needed.

Might be worth a look anyway, toes if there has been any bodged repair or any sign of imminent failure as you might just get a new set of door looms whilst still under the warranty! I this k someone here mentioned that they redesigned the looms following many issues. To be frank, that should have been enough for dealerships to recall and replace all looms but I guess they will only swap out what is still under warranty as its not a safety issue.