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johnny86
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13th Jan 14 at 18:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If a car was fitted with air bags but they got removed do they need to be there for mot?
Tiger
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13th Jan 14 at 19:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If the fault light is on, it will fail.
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I want to fit an aftermarket wheel to my golf so wont have air bag and might have to remove passenger because I wanna fit gauges in the cover
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13th Jan 14 at 19:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Light wont be on as ill get it switched off
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13th Jan 14 at 19:16   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If you're removing all the airbags remove the airbag ECU too
Mattb
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
If you're removing all the airbags remove the airbag ECU too


it will still bring the light on for a golf.. airbag needs to be coded out of the dash panel insert, or the LED will need to be removed from the cluster.

Just removing the airbag c/u will log faults with every control unit on the drivetrain can network
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13th Jan 14 at 19:25   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
So if I change steering wheel can I still drive it until I get light flashed off?
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13th Jan 14 at 19:30   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Remove clocks, put blutac over LED
Joey 1.6 sport
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Then when it comes for mot will notice light not working =failer have it all the time testing
deano87
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Why you'd want to modify your car by removing an airbag is beyond me
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Originally posted by Joey 1.6 sport
Then when it comes for mot will notice light not working =failer have it all the time testing

How is my suggestion different to coding it out or removing the LED? You likely know best if you work in that game, but you make it sound like even with no airbag installed, a light needs to come on then go off otherwise it'd fail?
jay26
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13th Jan 14 at 23:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Airbag light not working is not a fail
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I am an MOT tester and if the light doesn't come on it isn't a fail its an advisory but part of the test is to check for presence of airbags where you can. If you have the an aftermarket steering wheel it will be obvious that the airbag has been removed and that's a fail. Some testers will probably overlook it if the lights out.
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To mirror the above, my old Corsa had an OMP wheel on it. I removed the airbag light after swapping the steering wheel and was never told about it at MOT time.

It was removed because the harnesses stopped me from hitting my head on the steering wheel and I worked out that a cheap slap in the face by an airbag was not wanted after crashing.
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My local tester said to me as long as the light comes on and goes off when the ignition is turned on then he would pass it.

 
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