philclemo Posted April 16, 2008 Report Posted April 16, 2008 Hi all Not a new problem judging by the number of results after my search, but I'm looking for perhaps a number of answers related to the same problem. Our Gal is my wife's. 2.3 Ghia manual, 1998. She loves it and I love driving it too. To be fair, since ownership, the car has not cost us a lot to keep going. We bought the Gal with 68k, in 2005. Since then it has had a full set of tyres, a coil pack and a new ABS sensor cable. It has done 84k now and the Airbag Warning light has come on. I haven't carried out any investigation as yet, I thought i would research first on this forum. I am a member of the jaguarforum.co.uk and i have found the advice on there immeasurable. Anyhow, I notice from previous posts that the 'clock spring' appears to be the regular culprit - how do I find this? Also, providing i can purchase the part, is it possible to reset the light with the correct code reader? If so, which reader would anyone recommend? Am i being cheeky here? Three questions in one post! Any help would be appreciated - Thanks Phil Quote
wibble Posted April 16, 2008 Report Posted April 16, 2008 Personally I wouldn't touch it. If you get it wrong it will set the airbag off. The spring is apparently behind the steering wheel airbag. Quote
Mich.H Posted April 16, 2008 Report Posted April 16, 2008 hi i have the same with mine with the airbag light but my machanic said it was nothing to worry about so i hope he's right Quote
philclemo Posted April 17, 2008 Author Report Posted April 17, 2008 Ok thanks for the replies so far. If I wanted it repaired by my local stealer, what would I expect it to cost? Some things are probably best left to the professionals I suppose. :blink: Quote
Moby 501 Posted April 17, 2008 Report Posted April 17, 2008 I had the same issue and I would not rush in to ripping anything apart, mine ended up just having to be reset and has not come on since, sometimes this can happen after battery is disconnected or something like that. I bought a hand held code reader on a uk website for Quote
seatkid Posted April 19, 2008 Report Posted April 19, 2008 The airbag light coming usually indicates an open circuit in one of the airbags. Once its on, it will stay on until reset by diagnostic computer or VAGCOM. If you decide to check the clock spring, make sure you read up on the procedure and disconnect the battery for several minutes before trying as you may accidently set the bag off! Quote
philclemo Posted April 21, 2008 Author Report Posted April 21, 2008 I had the same issue and I would not rush in to ripping anything apart, mine ended up just having to be reset and has not come on since, sometimes this can happen after battery is disconnected or something like that. I bought a hand held code reader on a uk website for Quote
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