Airbag Light Comes On After I Upgraded To Leather Seats..

[tab]

All but two of the posts assumed that anyway I think

[LUMO]

Thanks tab your a champ

can you edit my first post

CHeers

Pete

Edited 15/01/08 10:04 AM by LUMO

[XR06T]

I think that bugster70 had the same problem when he put his leather in, but he hasn't been on the forum for yonks! you will be able to tell if your new seats have airbags as there will be a plastic cover on the side of the seat that says srs or airbag.

[XF Falcon]

I think they also have a little tag sticking out the side with AIRBAG or something written on it.

[LUMO]

Cant see anything guys that says air bag on it

[cobrav8]

Cant see anything guys that says air bag on it

My tags are beside your shoulder on the outer side of the car - made out of leather the same colour as the seat - looks a bit like a tag inside your shirt

[grepin]

My tags are beside your shoulder on the outer side of the car - made out of leather the same colour as the seat - looks a bit like a tag inside your shirt

I was told by an upholsterer that if you turn your ignition on with the seats disconnected your airbag light will stay on. Regardless if its airbag or not I assume as he said it about mine being non airbag.

He said ford will need to re-set it. I dont know how true this is.

[Rickc14]

I’m not sure if this is the same problem you are having. But I swapped my seats from ones with airbags to ones without. When I did this it threw an airbag fault as it was missing two airbags. So to combat this fault you need to go buy a 2.2 ohm 1watt resistor from jaycar and either do a bodge and jam it into the two inner pins of the airbag plug or solder them into the wires that lead to those two inner pins. This tricks the computer into thinking it has airbags in the seats and stops the code. This worked on my 2011 fg falcon 

[Snowy069]

Hey guys, got the same problem in my BF2.5. Swapped the seats from cloth NON airbag type to leather WITH airbags. Ever since had code 23 flash up. Tonight I took the resistor plugs from my other BF2 and disconnected the seats from the loom and plugged in the dummy yellow resistor plugs and the light went out. However I'm sure this has now disabled the side seat airbags. What's the proper way to fix this so the seat airbags deploy in case of an accident? I do remember switching on th ignition foolishly before plugging in the connectors and wondered if just an SRS reset would fix the problem?

Is there a way to reset the system in a BF without an SRS reset tool like the EF by shorting out say pin 4 in the diagnostic plug?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[El Andrew]

I'm not quite sure it is that simple mate - if your car didn't have side airbags from factory, it won't have the correct control module, side impact sensors or maybe even wiring loom to support the additional airbags.