Billi

Or in case your kid is riding in older S2ks, just have the little one stick his or her head right between the vents and over the radio too... this way the airbag won't hit the kid when it's deployed !

R1_Pilot

The airbag on the MY06 cannot be dissabled by pushing a switch. It is dissabled by the seat weight sensor. The light by the radio will only tell you whether it is dissabled or not.
On my car it turns on whenever I fasten the passenger seat belt and there is no one seating there. I carried a few lightweight things and used the seatbelt to keep them from moving and the light came up.

So no, no manual switch. How heavy you have to be to activate it, I do not know ... take your kid with you next time and check it out.

J

insguy

Seatbelt does not have to be fastened to disable the airbag. Mine indicates disabled when I set my briefcase (with laptop) in the seat - without seatbelt. I'm guessing it's about 10 lbs.

ddess

Well, when my daughter sits in her seat and the belt is fastened the airbag light off comes on. She is 4 and in a booster and the light still comes on so the weight limit must be above 40lbs.

Chazmo

I think this is correct. I do not think there is a disable switch, per se. I think it's about 50 pounds to activate it, and I'm not sure it's totally deactivated under 50 -- it might just be a reduced charge. This is known as a smart airbag.

For earlier model S2000s (with dumb airbags), the answer is no, and see my signature for the factory mechanism which takes a big process to get done.