Occupancy sensor, don't cut wire!

[Goran]

Just in case anyone didn't know. If you want to fix your passenger seat occupancy sensor causing airbag light on dash, there is no need to cut the blue and white wires on pins 2 and 3 at the brown plug.
Simply find the little black 2-wire plug, unplug, and plug your resistor straight into it. Or if you really want, remove the two pins and solder the resistor to them. That way if you ever want to go back to a seat pad you retain the oem look without any patched up wires.
The little plug is also a lot easier to reach and remove than the same wires at the big brown plug.

[notorious]

Excellent Goran!

Do I need to buy 470 Ohm resistor to fix that?
Could you provide a link to this resistor if purchased online?

[Goran]

Hi Sergey,
I bought this one from Maplins. There is a 10Watt one too but I thought maybe that's overkill. The 7watt one is big and solid looking.

Another tip, the tin? wires on the resistor are soft, flatten the ends with some flat pliers and then you have bayonets to plug straight into the plug. The round wires dont plug in as nicely.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/wirewound-...resistor-l470r

[notorious]

Cheers Goran. Will do this when mine fails.

[ainarssems]

That's a bit o overkill, I don't think there is any noticeable current going through it. In the worst case if you take say 15V/470 Ohm = 0.032A. 0.032Ax15V=0.48W. I think if you take multimeter and check the current it will actually be much lower.

[Goran]

Good point! I should have checked the current. I would have preferred to go with a small resistor, just wanted to be on the safe side. Definitely, it should not draw more than the entire 'sleep' current of the whole car.