Passenger Airbag off - warning light

Well, Ive learnt something. I thought it was sensing that I had no passenger and was telling me it had disabled the passenger airbag.

I was worried because when I did have a passenger I think I saw it and it was due to me disabling the seatbelt gong.:eek:

I asked the same thing when I got mine too....

How do you disable the seat belt bong. I hate that it thinks theres a passenger if I put even a 3 litre bottle of milk on that seat!!

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Originally Posted by stray dingo

How do you disable the seat belt bong. I hate that it thinks theres a passenger if I put even a 3 litre bottle of milk on that seat!!

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Hi Stray

Here is a link to instructions (nb it refers to D3 but it works for MY12 D4 too)

DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - Safety Belt alarm (disabled)

cheers J

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How do you disable the seat belt bong? I hate that it thinks theres a passenger if I put even a 3 litre bottle of milk on that seat!!

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That is interesting. My 30kg dog can sit in the front of my D4 and it does not trip the passenger seatbelt alarm. In my Vw Eos a CD jewel case sets the bloody thing off. :mad:

I believe in other countries they do have the capability to turn off the passenger airbag for what reason I'm not sure at all. Im pretty sure I've read in the manual there is somewhere to turn it off but not in Australia. I just can not really see reason to turn it off.

Well there ya go i was just having a look at the quick information brief for the new 2015 D4 and haha this was in there.

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Originally Posted by nat_89

Well there ya go i was just having a look at the quick information brief for the new 2015 D4 and haha this was in there.

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That is not for the Australian market. The same basic information also appears in the handbooks for D3/RRS etc but that is because LR Aust are too lazy to produce handbooks specific for out vehicles and supply a small supplement that often gets lost.

Australian airbags are softer than in other markets and fire at a higher speed so do not have to be turned off when smaller bodies sit in the front. US airbags are set quite high in pressure and have decapitated children in the past.

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Originally Posted by nat_89

Well there ya go i was just having a look at the quick information brief for the new 2015 D4 and haha this was in there.

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From memory the same is in the MY13 D4 manual I got with my new car too.

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Originally Posted by letherm

From memory the same is in the MY13 D4 manual I got with my new car too.

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Yeah me to i just was looking at details online and saw it was to lazy to walk out to the car and find it haha!!

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Originally Posted by garrycol

That is not for the Australian market. The same basic information also appears in the handbooks for D3/RRS etc but that is because LR Aust are too lazy to produce handbooks specific for out vehicles and supply a small supplement that often gets lost.

Australian airbags are softer than in other markets and fire at a higher speed so do not have to be turned off when smaller bodies sit in the front. US airbags are set quite high in pressure and have decapitated children in the past.

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I knew we couldn't turn them off in Aus i just wasn't sure of the reasoning behind it, but thanks for that!

Part of the reason to be able to turn them off, is if you fit a child seat to the front passenger seat, it places them too close to the air bag should it deploy.

In other countries, it is legal to carry a child in their car seat in the front, however in Australia, it is not, unless there are no other seating positions. Ie: In a ute, for example.