Fault Code Reader

Does anybody know a garage, or individual who has got one of these in the Uttoxeter/Burton area of Staffordshire?

I've got an airbag warning light on the dash and don't really wanna pay the £70 quid Fiat want just to plug the thing in, and then probably loads more to press reset!!

Just drive to motormech? Centre of brum.

Have it done properly then.

P.s if the light is on, its found a fault, reset the light it WILL come back. Usually the clock spring mech behind the steering wheel at fault.

Fix the fault

Cheers Carlt, been meaning to go to Motormech since I bought the coop a few months back to get it checked over so looks like a trip is in the offing...and don't worry I was always going to get the fault fixed, its done it before and was the seat belt pre-tensioner quick clean of the connections and it was fine...for 4 months. The chap who had the code reader last time, which he erm...borrowed from Fiat can't get hold of it again, hence the request!

The seat belt tensioner???? there not wired to the airbag system at all??

There inertia operated.

Ok carlt, i'll bow to your superior knowledge on this as i'm sure you can tell the airbag system on the Fiat Coupe is not my specialist subject (nor the bloke who told me it was the seat belt pre-tensioner!!)...trip to motormech it is then.

Please accept my apologies for being a bit thick!!

jpm81 - I have a code reader with an airbag module - I'm in Rugeley - PM me your phone number and I'll call you

Lol sorry didnt mean to come across as pointing the finger at you.

Typical inexperienced garage, like the ones who plug the fault code reader in the abs socket not knowing.

I wonder Carlt. I'm just a bum from the bottom of the world who happens to have a coupe . But if my airbag light comes on, I just have a fiddle with the wires and connection under the drivers seat. The light always goes out.

Are you sure there is no connection between the light and these wires?

I too have airbag light issues at the moment, it just randomly came on one day whilst i was sat in traffic. If anyone has any ideas what i should check then it would be helpful. I think i read somewhere that the seat belt wires do run into the feedback loop for the airbag system somewhere too??? but I am from Somerset so everybody will have to forgive me for beeing a knumpty.

It's normally a clock-spring in the steering column. You may be able to get it reset, but the chances are it will come back again.

Looking in the manual (electrical system page 75) the TRW airbag ECU has electrical connections to driver and passanger pretensioner bridge (an initiator for an explosive gas). I'm pretty sure that when the airbag unit senses a crash and deploys the airbags it also electrically fires the seat belt pretensioner. I think that older models of the coupe (only 10 pins on the airbag ecu connector) may have had mechanical pretensioners only.
I hope that this helps?

Nope, in over 200 Coupe's of all ages inc 4x airbag models and left hand drives never have we found wired seatbelts.

Maybe something they do abraod as they have more strict rules, but even with 50% of them being import spec we chop, never seen them.

Fair enough, I stand corrected.
Just goes to show that you can read a book and still know nothing...

Carlt - on my car, the seatbelt pretensioner is at the bottom of the B pillar, so the wiring is obviously well-hidden

Are you saying that UK cars don't even have this? (mine's a BFPO car)

Yes Nigel there all on the B-pillar but im yet to see one thats wired up, i remove them from every car (we have to) and never has one been wired.

Even the airbag seat models dont seem to be wired. Just a different seatbelt unit.