A4 Air bag warning light

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Boyd.Hatwood@BT.com - 13 Mar 2007 12:08 GMT

Anyone know how to turn this off. It has come on randomly for no
reason. Don't really want to pay the garage £££££ to run a full
diagnostic check then just flick a switch???

thanks

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Ronald - 13 Mar 2007 12:24 GMT

Anyone know how to turn this off. It has come on randomly for no
reason. Don't really want to pay the garage £££££ to run a full
diagnostic check then just flick a switch???

thanks

No other way.

Ronald

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dave AKA vwdoc1 - 13 Mar 2007 13:02 GMT

http://ross-tech.com/
http://vag-com.com/

You could purchase your own scanner to check out the reason why the air bag
light is on and possibly reset it yourself and save £££££ in the future with
this tool. ;-)

JMHO
later,
dave
(One out of many daves)

> Anyone know how to turn this off. It has come on randomly for no
> reason. Don't really want to pay the garage £££££ to run a full
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> Ronald

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PeterD - 13 Mar 2007 14:02 GMT

>Anyone know how to turn this off. It has come on randomly for no
>reason.

Uh, no, it didn't come on for "no reason"... There was a reason and
diagnostics will tell you the reason?

>Don't really want to pay the garage £££££ to run a full
>diagnostic check then just flick a switch???

And do without the airbag, and have an accident, and die? All to save
a few Dollars (Pounds, Euros, whatever...) Good sense!

>thanks

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LeakiestWink - 22 Mar 2007 08:50 GMT

>>Anyone know how to turn this off. It has come on randomly for
>>no
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> to save
> a few Dollars (Pounds, Euros, whatever...) Good sense!

Yup, fully agree. When the airbag light is on, ALL of the Safety
Restraint System (SRS) components are disabled, including ALL
airbags, ALL seat belt pretensioners, ALL active head restraints,
and ALL electronic seat belt load limiters!

If you drive in the UK with the warning light illuminated, the
BiB would probably throw the book at you, and your insurance
would be void if you had an accident.

As others have stated, get the stored DTCs read, either at a main
stealer, a Bosch or VAG independent, or find a mate with VAG-COM.

It is most likely the connector under the front seat, but do NOT
fiddle with it when the ignition is switched on, nor turn on the
ignition with it disconnected.

Rgds, Sean

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