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Airbag Control Unit

DeanT

By DeanT,
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Ok so my car was serviced at BMW and they gave me a list of jobs that needed doing in order to pass the mot, had to get rear tyres changed, brake fluid replaced,rear bushes and airbag control unit, now I'm looking at a bill of around £350 for the airbag unit to be sorted through BMW , is this something I have to get done through them or are they just playing d1ck Turpin and robbing me? As they wanted just shy of £500 for two rear tyres so I went elsewhere!

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Depends how you want to play it... Cheapest way is to bypass the Passenger-seat Occupancy sensor... This should extinguish the light ! BUT if you leave it in place after MOT then the passenger air-bag won't fire if you have an accident !!

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hi steveg3por they didnt say anything specific they just said the unit is faulty and that id be paying £377 for the privilage, the light has come on inside the car but other than that the car is fine, gonna be !Removed! if they are just bumping the price up for no reason!

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whats the gen with that then dabsy how do i go about bypassing it and what do i need?

Cheers Charlee

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I bought a kit off eBay for £7. Took the front seat out, fitted it and it didn't work. My mot is due soon so I'm a little worried..

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Dabsy,it will fire in a accident even if no ones in the seat

Go and test it for me !! :P :lol:

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Dean, There could be a fault with the connector under the air bag its self, There is a spade connector which could be faulty, I cleaned mine and had it reset by the garage, No more light!

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Bought one of those bypass things off eBay.....didn't work! However I took the car to the garage and he said that the laws had changed about the airbag warning light being on and it won't fail an mot for it.....and it didn't so I passed MOT and am a happy chappy

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Just mine serviced and apparently the law was going to come in, but has been postponed for now.

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