AliveBoy Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 Does anyone have any of the plug in airbag resistors to cancel the airbag light? or know where I can get one from? They used to be everywhere, but I can't find one now! I have the old connector from my drivers seat which I could cut off and solder a 2.2ohm resistor to, but I'd rather keep it attached! Any help would be great Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 18, 2013 Author Posted November 18, 2013 No haha. I have a race seat, so the light is on constantly as there is no airbag to be connected Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 18, 2013 Author Posted November 18, 2013 I have resistors, just not the connectors I don't want to splice into the factory connections if I can avoid it, just incase I ever need to put the standard seat back in. Maybe I should just bit the bullet and cut the one off my drivers seat as I'm not using it anyway. Quote
Grundy Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 Take the bulb out the dash? Friend took all the warning lights out of his Volvo Quote
KyleR Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 Can't you take a small section of the wire cover off to expose the copper and connect the resistor there? Then if you come to putting the OEM's back in there'll be no problem that can't be solved with some black electrical tape. Quote
KyleR Posted November 18, 2013 Posted November 18, 2013 Wait, or yellow tape, I can't remember what colour they are. Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 18, 2013 Author Posted November 18, 2013 Take the bulb out the dash? Friend took all the warning lights out of his Volvo I thought of that until I saw this: New Airbag MOT legislation New legislation came into force on March 20th 2013 meaning that MOTs become stricter in relation to Airbags. From this date all Airbag lights (SRS malfunction warning lights) on the dashboard MUST light up when the ignition is turned on and MUST go out once the car is started. Wait, or yellow tape, I can't remember what colour they are. I might just use the old connector, I've taken out so much of the interior already it would be hard to put it back to normal anyway Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 23, 2013 Author Posted November 23, 2013 Anyone know the colours of 2.2 ohm resistors? Just soldered one in and it's not cleared the light did the key trick thingy and disconnected the battery too. Anything else I can try? Quote
Lexx Posted November 23, 2013 Posted November 23, 2013 Plenty of info on Google to give you resistor band colours. Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 23, 2013 Author Posted November 23, 2013 I googled it, but a few websites gave different answers. Quote
peteman35 Posted November 23, 2013 Posted November 23, 2013 My steering wheel air bag is just a fuse. Don't know if that helps Quote
KyleR Posted November 23, 2013 Posted November 23, 2013 I googled colours too before buying mine and when I received them they were nothing like the pictures, so not sure how much the bands can be relied upon. Quote
richard.hezlett Posted November 23, 2013 Posted November 23, 2013 The colour code for a 2.2 ohm resistor varies slightly depending on how many colour bands are on the resistor. For a resistor with 4 colour bands the sequence from one end should be red,red,gold plus 1 other colour band (tolerance). For a resistor with 5 colour bands the sequence should be red,red,black,silver plus 1 other colour band (tolerance). For a resistor with 6 colour bands the sequence is the same as for a 5 banded one except there is another band at one end for ppm. Hope this makes some sense! Quote
KyleR Posted November 23, 2013 Posted November 23, 2013 I just had a look at my build thread to see what I used. My resistors were 2.2 ohm 1/4 or 1/2 watt, do you know what wattage yours were? Also, have you got both seats swapped or just drivers? If both, did you fit a resistor to each? I know that sounds a bit "IT help desk" but I have to ask Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 23, 2013 Author Posted November 23, 2013 I just had a look at my build thread to see what I used. My resistors were 2.2 ohm 1/4 or 1/2 watt, do you know what wattage yours were? Also, have you got both seats swapped or just drivers? If both, did you fit a resistor to each? I know that sounds a bit "IT help desk" but I have to ask Haha, just drivers I bought these a while ago and can't remember what watt they were Quote
richard.hezlett Posted November 23, 2013 Posted November 23, 2013 Those resistors look like 330 ohms 5%. (Orange,orange,brown,gold) Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 23, 2013 Author Posted November 23, 2013 (edited) Those resistors look like 330 ohms 5%. (Orange,orange,brown,gold) Grr, thanks dude got 99 of the blighters left! Edited November 23, 2013 by Dedman Quote
AliveBoy Posted November 27, 2013 Author Posted November 27, 2013 Those resistors look like 330 ohms 5%. (Orange,orange,brown,gold) I owe you a beer or 2 sir, got some 2.2ohm resistors in and boom, issue solved. Thank you hugely! Quote
richard.hezlett Posted November 27, 2013 Posted November 27, 2013 No probs. That's what the forum is for. You might have a bit of a drive to buy me a pint (Northern Ireland)! Quote
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