Airbag light after changing seats

[nixonscars]

Hi, can anyone help me with my airbag light.

 

I have an RS5 2010 pre facelift which had wingback seats in. I have changed the front two seats to a mint set of S5 seats as the wingbacks were worn.

 

I didn't realise but I believe these are facelift seats and the airbag connector didn't fit. I have changed the plug from the wingback seats to the S5 seats, the wingbacks had two wires and the S5 facelift has 3. The 3rd being the brown wire.

 

I've scanned the Internet for answers on this and the only answers I can find are to hardwire the connections, adding a resistor 2.2 and 4.4 but none of these options have worked and I still have the airbag light on. It's just this airbag light that's the issue. I've cleared the codes after install but it immediately comes back

[Stevey Y]

4 hours ago, nixonscars said:

Hi, can anyone help me with my airbag light.

 

I have an RS5 2010 pre facelift which had wingback seats in. I have changed the front two seats to a mint set of S5 seats as the wingbacks were worn.

 

I didn't realise but I believe these are facelift seats and the airbag connector didn't fit. I have changed the plug from the wingback seats to the S5 seats, the wingbacks had two wires and the S5 facelift has 3. The 3rd being the brown wire.

 

I've scanned the Internet for answers on this and the only answers I can find are to hardwire the connections, adding a resistor 2.2 and 4.4 but none of these options have worked and I still have the airbag light on. It's just this airbag light that's the issue. I've cleared the codes after install but it immediately comes back

Hi I think it will be a case of recoding the new air bags in the new seats from experience a lot of times the airbag control module wont recognise the new bags a way of testing this is to plug the old seats in again and see if the light goes out, I have in the past had to strip seats and put in the old units in the new seats, the resistors wont work because the air bags in the new seats have not gone and are not replying the correct code back to the module, it may well have been better to have just had the worn patches repaired on the old seats.

Steve.