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alfa airbag warning light stays on

  • 21-01-2011 7:52pm
    #1
    spacekiwi
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭


    hi all,

    My 166 airbag light on dash has just suddenly came on and wont go off.

    is there anyway anyone knows of to fix problem...some say check leads and connectors under seats...others say needs system reset at alfa dealer

    Wont pass a nct until gone.....help please.


    thanks.
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  • #2
    Carstuck
    Registered Users Posts: 439 ✭✭Carstuck


    Had same light on a fiesta recently, brought to a garage and had to get the main computer replaced. Really you need to get the code read at a garage.


  • #3
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    spacekiwi wrote: »
    hi all,

    My 166 airbag light on dash has just suddenly came on and wont go off.

    is there anyway anyone knows of to fix problem...some say check leads and connectors under seats...others say needs system reset at alfa dealer

    Wont pass a nct until gone.....help please.


    thanks.


    Would appreciate help with exact same problem on a BMW 330.

    Thanks


  • #4
    Hotwheels
    Registered Users Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Hotwheels


    Check the connections under the seats, that's usually the culprit, the light goes off when fixed..


  • #5
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    Carstuck wrote: »
    Had same light on a fiesta recently, brought to a garage and had to get the main computer replaced. Really you need to get the code read at a garage.

    Hadn't seen your post when I was posting mine. Your advice sounds like what I'm being told. So thanks for your post, helps to re-assure that I'm not being led up the proverbial.

    The guy who fixes my car is a mechanical genius, but he tends to go for the nuclear option at all events. The local breaker has been known to say that he could make a good living out of the parts my guy scraps!


  • #6
    kyote00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭kyote00


    Hi

    Assuming its the red airbag light, then it could be either connections under the seat or could be a fuse called "services2" - second from the bottom on left hand side of the fuse box under the steering column.

    Did it just happen randomly ?

    Note, the warning light needs to be reset using a diagnostic - it wont go out by fixing the problem (i.e. new fuse or loose connection).

    I also have a 166 (and a 156 before that) and I use this diagnostic kit to reset and check codes (www.alfadiag.net) -- works perfectly and reads all specific alfa codes....
    (fiatecuscan also works http://www.fiatecuscan.net/)

    If you are pulling out fuses or checking wires, make sure to disconnect the battery otherwise you willl make things worse....

    (finally come over here http://www.alfaowner.com/Forum/ireland/ for best Alfa advice and not the tripe that usually goes on here...)


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  • #7
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    kyote00 wrote: »

    I also have a 166 (and a 156 before that) and I use this diagnostic kit to reset and check codes (www.alfadiag.net) -- works perfectly and reads all specific alfa codes....
    (fiatecuscan also works http://www.fiatecuscan.net/)

    If you are pulling out fuses or checking wires, make sure to disconnect the battery otherwise you willl make things worse....

    (finally come over here http://www.alfaowner.com/Forum/ireland/ for best Alfa advice and not the tripe that usually goes on here...)

    Never having seen a diag kit being used, where does the connector plug into in the car so that the pc can read the codes?


  • #8
    kyote00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭kyote00


    On the 166, its just under the steering column above the fuse box.


  • #9
    spacekiwi
    Registered Users Posts: 225 ✭✭spacekiwi


    thanks kyotee


  • #10
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Same thing happened in a 156 I had. There was a loose connector in the boot. Behing a little window on the right hand side of the boot trim. Gave them a push together and it's off since.


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