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Originally Posted by IT
The article quotes MY 1998 to 2000, which, to me says early facelift, which would rule yours out.
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Sadly IT, my vehicle identification nuber is in the list of affected vehicles, so definitely not ruled out, and quite probably on some registration watch list.
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There was a different style steering wheel on those model years, with the later facelift late 2000 onwards having a smoother finish with recessed buttons.
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My wheel has no buttons. The facelift steering wheels may well be unaffected.
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This being the likely case, swapping the steering wheel for a later one is a reasonably trivial operation to be honest, not that I suspect it would affect your PF steering wheel....
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I would jump for joy if the problem went away with a steering wheel swap!
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The PF cars had firstly driver and passenger airbags, followed by front seat side air bags, and later rear seat side airbags. PF never had roof airbags (as already noted) but all facelift did from MY 1998
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I think my car has 6 airbags; drivers, passenger, both front seats and two in the rear...
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The PF airbag controllers were pretty obedient at simply coding in/out the side airbags as desired as we saw seats from various eras swapped about with/without the various airbags in place, but the drivers airbag was always present so couldn't ever be coded out from memory, so disconnecting the drivers airbag causes the airbag warning to illuminate.
Disconnecting the airbag module, has a special connector which when removed from the module, will also cause the airbag warning light to illuminate, but can be worked around if you have the time and patience. Not an action I would recommend though....
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I see that on quattroworld forum and other US forums that people have had success with the airbag instrument cluster telltale light by using 47k ohm? resistors and other tricky wiring modifications. I don't know how that will go in this situation though...
Thanks for all of your thoughtful input.
