I have an aftermarket wheel in my teg and the SRS light is on. Ive read on another post that you could use a 2.2ohm resistor to trick the system...It didn't work though. What else can I do?

 

Take out the SRS system completely and remove the bulb. Not like your using it anyway.

 

2 ohm

 

After you install the resistor, you have to reset the SRS system.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Danny_EJ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">2 ohm</TD></TR></TABLE> Are you sure about this? Should I just go to radio shack? Can you post a link where someone has done this successfully.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by TomO &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">After you install the resistor, you have to reset the SRS system.</TD></TR></TABLE> I did this and the light still came back on...but that was with a 2.2ohm restistor.

 

Dont ask for help if you are not going to believe the help we are giving you. TAKE A MULTIMETER. SET TO OHMS/RESISTANCE PUT THE TWO LEADS ACROSS THE AIR BAG

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Danny_EJ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Dont ask for help if you are not going to believe the help we are giving you. TAKE A MULTIMETER. SET TO OHMS/RESISTANCE PUT THE TWO LEADS ACROSS THE AIR BAG</TD></TR></TABLE>
Then listen as your buddies laugh as the 9v battery inside your meter sets off the airbag in your face.

DO NOT TEST A LIVE AIRBAG ON THE RESISTNACE SETTING ON YOUR METER.

It probably won't go off, but that one time in a thousand could kill you if the bag is on your bench face down and you have your face over it. It's happened before, it'll happen again.

To the OP:
You already took off the wheel with the airbag...that means SRS is useless to you. Pull the system out.

 

Unplug the yellow connector from the back of your gauge cluster.

 

You guys are retarded if you think probing an unplugged airbag on Ohms is going to set it off

 

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Just making sure. You shouldn't help if you don't know what your talking about. I just wanted to make sure that your credible for what your saying. A lot of online advise is given on bull ****.

 

I have a college degree in electronics, does that meet your requirements v8meathead?






Unlike everyone on here, I understand how electronics work and Im not afraid of it. The people who are afraid are the ones who dont understand.


HT typical meat heads

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Do you even know how VOM's test for resistance?</TD></TR></TABLE>

See above pic. What kind of current do you think is exerted by a ****** multimeter????

The same amount you would get by walkin on this carpet. Damn, i walked on teh carpet and the airbag didnt go off!!

 

I took an old air bag out of my closet because you guys are afraid to probe it!!

OP: LOOK AT THE METER. I said 2.0 The meter went from 2.0-2.1 A 2 ohm resistor will be fine.

 

just pull the srs fuse. then the light goes out, and it doesnt work

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Garage 808 Hatch &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just pull the srs fuse. then the light goes out, and it doesnt work</TD></TR></TABLE>

The light still stays on when you pull the fuse.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Danny_EJ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have a college degree in electronics, does that meet your requirements v8meathead?






Unlike everyone on here, I understand how electronics work and Im not afraid of it. The people who are afraid are the ones who dont understand.


HT typical meat heads</TD></TR></TABLE>

Your college degree is useless if you can't figure out that he's removing the airbag and wants the airbag light off. Think about it, how do you turn a light off when the switch commands it on?

Two options:

1. Unplug the yellow connector from the back of the gauge cluster (equivalent of cutting power to the light switch).
2. Take the light bulb out.

 

WOW......

Hello idiot.. if you install the 2 ohm resistor where the air bag used to be the SRS system will not notice a problem and will not see an open circuit and will NOT THROW A SRS CODE




My useless degree ....

 

If you unplug the yellow connector, you'll save time, you'll save money, and your friends won't call you MacGyver.

 

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Really Danny? That's nice. I have my MSEE and a pyrotechnician's license (in 5 states), and about 15 years using both. We can **** back and forth here all day about who knows more about electronics, but the bottom line is safety. An airbag is an electrically activated explosive device, plain and simple. The pyro pack in an airbag is designed to be able to fire with a trigger as low as 6V, so that in case the battery is damaged in the crash or a cable is compromised on impact, the system can still deploy. It doesn't take that much to make them go bang. Like I said in my post, it won't happen every time, but someone will do that with a cheap meter that's not properly current limited, or a 12V test light, and bad things will happen. It's happened before where an airbag has gone off acidentally while being tested or handled...static discharges CAN and HAVE fired the pyro charges. Put on some wool socks and scuff them on your poly carpet in a few months. 10kV, no waiting.

HT meathead indeed.

OP: Remove the SRS system. Pulling the driver's airbag killed it...it won't work now with a piece missing. Simple solution.

 

[QUOTE=dpaton]
Really Danny? That's nice. I have my MSEE and a pyrotechnician's license (in 5 states), and about 15 years using both. We can **** back and forth here all day about who knows more about electronics, but the bottom line is safety. An airbag is an electrically activated explosive device, plain and simple. The pyro pack in an airbag is designed to be able to fire with a trigger as low as 6V, so that in case the battery is damaged in the crash or a cable is compromised on impact, the system can still deploy. It doesn't take that much to make them go bang. Like I said in my post, it won't happen every time, but someone will do that with a cheap meter that's not properly current limited, or a 12V test light, and bad things will happen. It's happened before where an airbag has gone off acidentally while being tested or handled...static discharges CAN and HAVE fired the pyro charges. Put on some wool socks and scuff them on your poly carpet in a few months. 10kV, no waiting.

I agree I've seen first hand what esd can do with airbags.

 

huh? i pulled my fuse and air bag, and never had a light

 

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Pulling the fuse took the SRS system offline, same as unplugging the whole thing.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dpaton &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Pulling the fuse took the SRS system offline, same as unplugging the whole thing.</TD></TR></TABLE>

So if I reinstalled the air bag and reset the light, then remove the fuse before removing the airbag again I wouldn't get the light?

 

If you pull the fuse, you shouldn't get the light at all. I'll check the helms manual when I get home, but I"m pretty sure the SRS light in the cluster is driven from the SRS computer, not the ECU, so if you kill power to the SRS computer, the dash light, the other airbag, etc will all be deactivated.

 

say if you did get into an accident with this thing....when they look at the car what do they say when they find the airbag disconected and a resistor across the wires?