Good afternoon from very hot and sunny France.

 

An 'Error airbag' message appeared several weeks ago on my Superb.

I took it to a local mechanic who ran the diagnostics and advised me it's a crash sensor on the drivers side that has been activated and to look at the door and where the wires run through it.

The error code is 01221.

When I look this up on my OBD eleven it is the crash sensor in the driver's side door.

My partner investigated where the wires run through the door and he found a purple/white wire and a green wire that were broken.

He has repaired them by soldering them.

The error code remains - well we didn't expect it to just disappear - when I run the OBD eleven (basic) it doesn't show any errors. 

Before I contact the mechanic to run the diagnostics again is there anything else we should do?

Does anyone know what the two wires relate to?

 

Thank you in advance for any replies and advice.

 

Yours is a username that I remember from years back on French forums Tresco!

 

Repairing the wires will most likely have cured the fault but the warning light will need to be reset using VCDS or similar as its a safety system.

 

I see you have OBDII, simply deleting historic fault codes should clear the light, I dont know the software but you can probably delete stored codes somewhere, no new ones is very encouraging.

 

Did he splice in lengths of wire and solder the joints away from the fractured point? If soldered where they broke they will break again and faster.

 

My location in SW France is shown if you need any help.

Hi @J.R.

 

Thanks for your reply and your offer of any help, although you are a fair distance from chez nous.

Been busy as we are moving back to Cornwall from Deux-Sèvres.

 

The OBD11 didn't pick up the error code which is why I went to our local mechanic. Shame cos if it had it probably would have cleared it.

 

My partner has the wiring sorted so hopefully it will have resolved the issue. I will find out soon when I visit the mechanic!

 

 

 

Bon retour!

Merci 😊