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My airbag light is on after I changed to a Sparco seat, what can I do?

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Old 03-15-2003, 08:47 AM
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Default My airbag light is on after I changed to a Sparco seat, what can I do?

I heard Recaro has a connector can fix this problem, anyone know where I can get one?
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Default have you checked the tech section?

you have to place a resistor in line of the airbag connectors, because you no longer have air bags.
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sorry, where in the tech section? I don't see it there...
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Default Depending on what year your car is

the 2 wires are light colored and if you have a brown wire on that plug it is not used.

Non dbw needs a 5 ohm resistor and dbw needs a 2.5 ohm resistor. Just jump the resistor between the 2 light colored wires on the plug that is near the vent on the floor board.
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So what I need to do is cut the two wires, and connect them with a 5 ohm resistor??
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I cut the wires a few inchs from the plug on the floor, I then put 2 female connectors on those wires. I put male connectors on the resistors so I could just plug them into the female connnector and later on if I wanted I could restall the stock airbag seats back if without doing any other wire work.

For the 5 ohm resistor you can find one that is close to 5 ohm or buy a pack of 10 ohm's and put 2 of them together (parallel) by just putting them right next to each other and twisting the wires at each end together. Do that for each front seat.
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