Reply With QuoteHave it code read to see what has upset it, if it was just a battery fault the SRS ECU usually ignores this and just stores it as a code. As I suspect the battery went flat, did you jump start the car?
Hi,
Wondering if someone can help me out. My airbag light has come on and I am trying to trace it back to when it came on. I am thinking it might of been when I changed my battery but not sure. I have read on other sites that if the exact battery is not installed then it could trigger the light? Anyone know about this? and what do I have to do?
MOT coming up so would appreciate any help.
It is a Halfords battery I installed. See below.
Thanks
Scott
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Have it code read to see what has upset it, if it was just a battery fault the SRS ECU usually ignores this and just stores it as a code. As I suspect the battery went flat, did you jump start the car?
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Hi,
Thanks for responding. It was my grans car and it had been sitting so the battery did go flat. It is a 59 plate with 14K mile. I think she did get a jump start then went to halfords to get the battery changed. Would the jump start make a difference or cause any damage?
Thanks
Scott
Yes jump starting can blow control units. Find a local VAG group specialist and have the cars full system scanned, make sure you get a hard copy of the results and then a full code clear and see if the light stays out, if not they need to read the air bag codes again and see what has come back.
2003 Skoda Octavia VRS Estate. APR 98RON remap, APR R1 diverter valve, Jetex exhaust, K&N panel filter, 7.5x18 Alutec Monstr wheels with 225/40 18 Uniroyal Rainsport 3 tyres.
2006 Polo GTI 1.8T, APR 95RON remap
1988 Golf 2 GTI 16 valve, 2.2 with Weber Alpha injection
1983 Golf 1 GTI 8 valve, 2 litre with Eurospec racing 42/36 head
1972 1302LS auto 1641cc conversion
Vile Invention
Dark was that day when Diesel conceived his grim engine that begot you, vile invention, more vicious, more criminal than the camera even, metallic monstrosity, bale and bane of our culture, chief woe of our Commonweal. How dare the Law prohibit hashish and heroin yet license your use, who inflate all weak inferior egos? Their addicts only do harm to their own lives: you poison the lungs of the innocent, your din dithers the peaceful, and on choked roads hundreds must daily die by chance-medley. Nimble technicians, surely you should hang your heads in shame. Your wit works mighty wonders, has landed men on the Moon, replaced brains by computers, and can smithy a "smart" bomb. It is a crying scandal that you cannot take the time or be bothered to build us, what sanity knows we need, an odorless and noiseless staid little electric brougham.
W.H. Auden (1907-1973), A Curse:
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