Hello again. I've found and extracted dash, both airbags (passenger and drivers), steering wheel and airbag ECU from a scrapped Skoda Fabia 2005 Combi Tdi (55 plate) to replace the airbags in the car I bought. I couldn't find any impact/crash sensors at the front of the car. Are there any sensors? Another post suggests the ECU is the only sensor. What am I missing here? Do I need to replace the seatbelt units also? Thanks for any help!

Yes, the seat belt pre-tensioners will need renewal.

 

Yes all the sensors are housed in the ECU, it'll need recoding though.

Thanks sepulchrave. The ECU recoding to match with the change of car?  Is this something a garage can do or is it more complicated process. Thanks for your help.

There are a couple of companies that will remove the crash data for £30 or so with a 24 hour turnaround, I used one for my Yeti after replacing all the deployed airbags and seatbelt pretensioner reels, it was an incredibly quick turnaround, I cant recall their name though but I think you will find them on Ebay.

 

In your shoes I would send them your original airbag control module as the second hand one that you have may well have different coding.

Thanks J.R. That's a top tip! Something I wouldn't have thought of. Merci.

I found the company by searching my E_mails

 

airbagteam.com

 

Highly highly recommended and I don't give that accolade lightly.

 

You probably already understand but for the benefit of anyone else reading, after an accident with an airbag deployment officially the airbag control module has to be replaced, it will no longer function, however companies like the above can remove the crash data and reinitialise the module which makes it as good as new.

Thanks so very much J.R.

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