Drivers seat airbag went off...

[Cunney]

Just want to know is there a way of turning the airbag light off without disabling all the airbags? I.e a wire to take out?

 

[Redler]

Do you mean the airbag went off in your face or just the light in the dash board?
If its the dash board have a look under your seat and you should see a small connector clip/box thing and a few wires. Try pushing the wires in a bit and wiggle everything around.

Very common problem on the clios because when the seats are pushed back and forth the connectors slip around a fair bit i belive.

 

[Cunney]

No the actual side airbag went off mate, with it only being the side airbag I don't consider it to be hugely crucial so to save myself £250 i'd rather just knock the light off

 

[TimR26]

Airbag computer needs to be reset/replaced. Then you need a resistor in the seat connector to trick the computer into thinking it's still connected.

 

[f0xy]

yep the computer needs resetting....renault=expensive, apparently there is some german company that does it quite a bit cheaper.....

after that you'l need a resistor in the connector too, as atouba said

 

[Cunney]

Well I've rang the bodyshop and told them to put a 4 ohm resistor on there so after that just get the computer reset and it'll be reet?

 

[Alan]

Did you bang a kerb or go through a pot hole at a fair rate?

This happened to Big Iain's 172 a few years back, he was driving along at town speeds and the drivers seat airbag deployed for no reason, he went to renault with the car, even though it was out of warranty by two years IIRC, they paid for new seat/cover, airbag, airbag computer, both front seat belts, pre pensioners and all the labour charges at his local dealer to get the car back to 100%.

 

[Cunney]

 

[Beef-Mc]

Roffle, hit a big pot hole then!

 

[Alan]

Sh1t the bed, i'd never want that back!!

Cat c?

 

[TimR26]

That looks bad. Neat bit of off road parking though.

 

[Fletcher]

Ouch!

 

[Scrooge]

Lol how the hell?

 

[JD]

FLOL! That's parking for you! Tight alleyway was it??

 

[JD]

On a more serious note, presume you are OK mate??

 

[rory182]

I LOL'd so hard at that pic

 

[Cunney]

Sh1t the bed, i'd never want that back!!

Cat c?

Nope, no structural damage what so ever, rod end snapped when the car slammed into the kerb and its sort of protected the subframe

Needs...

New Bumper
New Headlight
New Door
New Rear Quarter Panel
New Wing Mirror
Two new serie rossa alloys (only 4 week old :dead
New Bump Strip
New side repeator
Seat re-stitched
Possibly new glass
Possibly new tyre (only 4 week old)
Obviously all needs to be re-painted

Costing £2k excluding the alloys (thats another £350)

Plus £300 just to tow it away.

 

[Gally]

In for the lols, Yeah side air bag and you'll be reet mate.

"Watch this"

Oh and btw, if they repair that for 2k let me know where you got it done.

 

[Cunney]

Lol how the hell?

Bit of a freak accident 2bh, coming round a corner down a country road, road is murder for having mud/horse sh1te on it, as i'm going round the corner the car has carried on by itself as if its on ice, so i've pulled it back in but then it's started snaking then eventually span, hit the kerb and flipped.

Wasn't speeding, doing about 40mph, very often do speed down that road but on that day I weren't, fine 1 minute then 10 seconds later car is on its side and I'm thinking where the fook did all that come from :dead:

On a more serious note, presume you are OK mate??

Yeh I'm fine thankfully mate, not a scratch or strained muscle, nobody else involved, clio did me proud with the way it held up

 

[Cunney]

In for the lols, Yeah side air bag and you'll be reet mate.

"Watch this"

Oh and btw, if they repair that for 2k let me know where you got it done.

My dads garage use this particular bodyshop all the time, they do top work, had my corsa in there a few times and the guy has explained how if he didn't know my dad so well he would be charging more like 3.5-4 with the proper parts

 

[Scrooge]

Ouch! I take it your insurance is paying tho? How did you hit the curb?

 

[TimR26]

Not going through insurance then so it doesn't get written off.

 

[Cunney]

Amazing how much you miss your car when you don't have it, prob be an emoitional moment when I get her back lol

 

[Scrooge]

Good luck hope it comes back all reet

 

[Cunney]

Not going through insurance then so it doesn't get written off.

Well I've got an excess of £850 (a 20 yr old has to do these things :dapprove plus it's more my NCB that I couldn't live with loosing, think i'd prob become a manic depressive if I had to scoot around in another low powered car

Was genuinley just a freak accident though, don't believe it was any fault of my own so obviously meant to happen for some odd reason especially when you consider nobody else was involved, no property damaged and no structural damage to the car

 

[Gally]

Ah so you are paying for it yourself. It's 2k+ worth of parts easily from Renault.

You'll learn from this, we all do.

Love the title aswell.

 

[Curtis!]

Amazing how much you miss your car when you don't have it, prob be an emoitional moment when I get her back lol

And then sell her... lol!

Gutted about the car though, was looking forward to seeing it.

 

[Alan]

Christ thats unlucky tho were you driving like a hero?

 

[Cunney]

Ah so you are paying for it yourself. It's 2k+ worth of parts easily from Renault.

You'll learn from this, we all do.

Love the title aswell.

Well he's buying second hand parts where he can with regards to the head light, mirror and that, he's assured me he will only use as new condition parts so if it saves me another £500 I'm happy

 

[TimR26]

Sounds like what your doing makes sense as you could of ended up with a cat d and more expensive insurance premiums.

 

[Cunney]

Agreed plus £900 excess on top

 

[Jason_E]

Good effort tbh.

 

[Alan]

Sounds like what your doing makes sense as you could of ended up with a cat d and more expensive insurance premiums.

Not really, as the person who buys this car next is technically buying an unregistered catd/write off which in my eyes is stingy as fvck.

 

[Beef-Mc]

Unless they come on here first and do a bit of research lol.

 

[Martin_172]

Not really, as the person who buys this car next is technically buying an unregistered catd/write off which in my eyes is stingy as fvck.

Agreed

 

[Cunney]

Not really, as the person who buys this car next is technically buying an unregistered catd/write off which in my eyes is stingy as fvck.

Agreed

Care to explain why that is so???

Cat d is when the car is a write off as you probably know, the car is worth in excess of 6k, the repairs are way below that so would not be considered a right off plus there is no strucutal damage, the body shop has asked me whether or not I want a quick fix job which would of cost half the amount which I could sell on the week after and mug somebody off.

I've not gone down that route and the car is being repaired to new standard, if there was any structual damage what so ever I wouldn't take the car back and have insurance sort it. Hardly going to drive a car I consider unsafe or a tempory job am I.

 

[Gally]

Care to explain why that is so???

Cat d is when the car is a write off as you probably know, the car is worth in excess of 6k, the repairs are way below that so would not be considered a right off plus there is no strucutal damage, the body shop has asked me whether or not I want a quick fix job which would of cost half the amount which I could sell on the week after and mug somebody off.

I've not gone down that route and the car is being repaired to new standard, if there was any structual damage what so ever I wouldn't take the car back and have insurance sort it. Hardly going to drive a car I consider unsafe or a tempory job am I.

Impossible, fitting a quarter to a car is very invassive and will never perform..ie corrosion protection ect... to the same standard as factory.

If you decide not to tell anyone it's had major work carried out and i'm sorry this is major work then that's up to you.

 

[word_easy]

Id still get the airbag sorted properly if I were you. You never know what could happen tomorrow, plus its abit s**t on the next owner eventually...

I'm pretty sure you have to replace the airbag computer which is underneath the ash tray.

 

[Aluco]

Sodding hell son!

Just a little more and it'd been on its roof and a complete wreck.

 

[Cunney]

Impossible, fitting a quarter to a car is very invassive and will never perform..ie corrosion protection ect... to the same standard as factory.

If you decide not to tell anyone it's had major work carried out and i'm sorry this is major work then that's up to you.

How would you know this?

Id still get the airbag sorted properly if I were you. You never know what could happen tomorrow, plus its abit s**t on the next owner eventually...

I'm pretty sure you have to replace the airbag computer which is underneath the ash tray.

I plan to get the airbag sorted eventually i'm just talking in terms of short-term as i'll struggle to get the money together as it is