Thread: Occupancy sensor

Been getting a fault up occasionally and decided to look at it tonight. Every so often when someone gets in the front passenger seat, I get the little airbag light up on the dash. It goes away again after a minute or so. I was playing around with my IID tool tonight and checked it - it came up with 'Occupancy Sensor' - well, duh....

It is obviously sensing someone sitting there as the lamp go out if they get out, but does anyone know why the fault is occurring?

Cheers.

Originally Posted by bacicat

Spent a few hours on it and gave up.... Light still comes on when there is a passanger in the car.

I had a light on at all times after dismantling seats to change seat cushions from left to right after 155K.
It turned out that I was the fault as I left an electrical connection off the seat occupancy sensor.
So all good with my car now but I did price a new sensor pad thinking I may have needed on and that was $520.00.
I note from the forum that there is more than one car with the air bag light showing and the unfortunate thing is that this would prevent an owner getting a Roadworthy certificate for their car.
I think that a small modification would get rid of the light but that would also mean that the passenger air bag would inflate in an accident regardless of there being a passenger or not.