Hi,

 i wanna ask you if you know if it's possible to reset airbag control unit after car accident. I had a car accident unfortunately and driver's seat airbag have exploded (curtain airbag exploded too)

Is it possible to do some things with VCDS? Or I need to buy a newest one?

Could you help me please?

Difficult to answer your question when you have not specified in your profile what your car is and your country of residence.

 

The only answer I can give you to your question is "yes, I know if it's possible (in the UK)"

6 minutes ago, J.R. said:

Difficult to answer your question when you have not specified in your profile what your car is and your country of residence.

 

The only answer I can give you to your question is "yes, I know if it's possible (in the UK)"

Hi J.R. my car is Skoda Superb II 2.0 (3T), i'm in Italy!

The airbag control module needs what the specialists call "crash data removal" which I suspect is an erase and reset, this cannot be done with VCDS or any other system to my knowledge although they clearly have something.

 

There are a couple of UK companies that offer a 24 hour turnaround for about £30, I used one of these but can't recall or find their name, I think it was probably this one as Liverpool sounds familiar:

 

https://crashdatareset.uk/

Post Brexit the problem might be import and export duties and formalities, now you know it can be done you might find someone in Italy or another EU country.

53 minutes ago, twigg0 said:

Is it possible to do some things with VCDS? Or I need to buy a newest one?

It may be possible. That said, I've also been in a crash where the airbag operated, and would be more interested in knowing that the airbag will operate correctly when and if, and only when and if, required than in saving part of the price of the airbag controller.

6 minutes ago, J.R. said:

The airbag control module needs what the specialists call "crash data removal" which I suspect is an erase and reset, this cannot be done with VCDS or any other system to my knowledge although they clearly have something.

 

There are a couple of UK companies that offer a 24 hour turnaround for about £30, I used one of these but can't recall or find their name, I think it was probably this one as Liverpool sounds familiar:

 

https://crashdatareset.uk/

ok thanks J.R. do you know where is the airbag control unit in Skoda Superb 2 like mine?

where is it located?

No.

 

On other Skoda vehicles it is usually at the top of the transmission tunnel tucked in underneath the heater box, an area where nothing could hit it accidentally or even maliciously, I expect yours will be the same.

 

You can usually get to it by removing the ashtray and the tunnel side trims, peeling back the carpet and working like a gynaecologist.

7 hours ago, KenONeill said:

It may be possible.

 

It is not.

I don't think there's any reason you couldn't safely reuse the controller after a reset, but you will obviously have to replace all of the spent pyrotechnic devices (very probably the seatbelt tensioners have fired too), and had a thorough diagnostic check done on the system. As others have said, it's a specialist job to reset the controller, not within the capabilities of VCDS.