And Its Goodbye From Him

[dragon32]

Hi Guys,

             I just dropped in quickly to say goodbye. The problems I have had with my Galaxy have now become insurmountable. No one seems to know anything about the airbag system and the location of the supply fuse so now the car is on e-bay if anyone is interested. I even tried Ford to solve this problem and even they dont know where the fuse is or even if it has one. I also wanted to thank everyone who tried to help and indeed did help with other problems I had. As for Fraud, they can kiss my **** and I will never buy another one after being a life long Ford customer.

 

Thanks to everyone,

                                Don

[gregers]

shame you have had a bad experience,but do pop in.anything you can add will help others.

[xavier]

Remember the galaxy's more a VW than Ford, a visit / call to your local VW dealer might shed more light on the problem?

[seatkid]

Sorry to hear you've given up.

As regards electrical information, full detailed electrical schematics are available both on the Ford TIS CD (versions of which are available to download free, but will only run on Windows XP or earlier) and the equivalent VAG EKTA.

If you bought a cheap VCDS cable off ebay, its well known these are of variable quality and some chinese cables dont work properly.

I've looked at your previous posts and unfortunately they tend fall into the newbie category of "provides little information and expects instant answers" - a lot of newbies expect magic super technicians to hold hands and give instant perfect diagnosis - it doesnt work like that. There is a lot of detailed knowledge on this forum (if you search) - some of which is excellent and some which can be misleading - thats the nature of a public forum. No-ones paid to sit here and give technical analysis 24/7 or, as expected by some, to do all the foot slogging and searching for them.

 

Below is a circuit schematic for your airbags

 

 

I expect the airbag modules to be a low resistance (< 3 ohm at a guess) as they are pyrotechnic devices - merely saying they are dead shorts is not very informative.

 

Good luck anyway with whatever you decide to do...

 

BTW the supply fuse as far as I can work out is the same as for the instrument cluster F1 - 10Amp, also check F17 -10amp. The diagnostics are all commoned up so not being able to communicate is either a cheap ebay cable problem or the airbag module has been disconnected somewhere - check you reconnect the airbag module when reinstalling it in the steering wheel.

Edited July 30, 2013 by seatkid

[dragon32]

Hi Guys,

             It wasn't my intention to dis this forum at all as I have had lots of help from the likes of Seatkid. What I meant was that, if Fraud didn't know then who did. As it strands even Ford have tried to help and a phone call from them this morning told me that on early MK1's there isn't a fuse for the airbag, and its just wired straight to the airbag controller. That strikes me as a bit dangerous when you think of whats on the other end. Anyway the car is for sale now and I can't afford to fix it if its a controller and clockspring. So, I realy do mean it when I say thanks to all you guys.

 

Don