Airbag Warning

[Seatdriver]

Hi all,

 

Just had my 05 alhambra beep at me something like d/s airbag pretensioner fault?

 

Was only on display for a split second so by the time it went bleep and I looked the message went off so I only got a glimpse of what it said.

 

Anyone had this fault, never seen this message before.

 

thanks

[gregers]

might be the clock spring wearing out???

perhaps if you do a scan it will throw up what the problem could be.

[Mirez]

Nothing to do with the clockspring, the pre-tensioner lives to the side of the front seats under the kick trim on the floor. Its responsible for taking up any slack in the seatbelt and keeping you locked into the seat before an airbag activation.

 

The airbag light should now be permanently lit though as the VAG system wont reset airbag faults automatically

[Seatdriver]

nope there are no warning lights lit on the dashboard, it just came up with this message so quickly I barely had time to read it then it was gone.

 

When I start the car the coil light (yellow) lights and several others, once engine starts they all go out.

 

Odd eh, any other thoughts?

[Mirez]

Nope! Very strange, I wouldn't worry about it then - if you have vagcom then read the codes else just wait and see if anything comes back.

 

Is your cluster display full size or half size? If its full size then press and hold the trip button with the engine running (either up or down on the right stalk) for 5 seconds or so - scroll the menu to "Vehicle Status" and see if its saying anythings amiss -without the airbag light being on though I suspect it will just show as "ok." in which case chalk it down to a comms fault and ignore it ;)