This isn't exactly S2000 specific, however I think all Hondas should be the same in this respect. My sisters 2001 civic with 187k has a SRS light on. She took it to a dealership and the charged $120 to tell her that it was the OPDS (the sensor in the passenger seat that keeps small children from having an airbag nail them, I actually didn't realize an 01 civic had this tecnology). They want $600 to fix it, which she does not have. My thought is that this issue would just cause that feature to not function (i.e.if her cat is in the passenger seat and she hits something, he is toast). I cannot find a straight forward answer anywhere confirming my thought, the tech at the dealership isn't even sure.

Can someone who is certain they are correct give me an answer? Please don't guess on this, as I want to be sure everything is not disabled. The SRS even controls the accident tensioner in the belt and I would hate for that to not function.

 

My opds went bad on my passenger seat on my s2k last year due to carrying a 40lb laundry bad on that seat for a few hours with the seatbelt on it so it wouldn't flop around. It would've cost me about 400 to replace the sensor but didn't bother since I never have small passengers. That sensor detects if theres enough weight on that seat to safely deploy the air bag if you were to crash but if the sensor is bad it will deploy the air bag no matter what if you have a frontal collision that triggers the srs unit on that side. I know this for a fact cause I was involved in a accident last year on the front passenger corner and eventhough I didn't have a passenger in my car it deployed the airbag and the seatbelt tensioners did what they had to do. If my sensor was fine it would've detected there was no one sitting in my passenger seat and wouldn't have deployed but unfortunately it did. To answer your question if anyone or anything is sitting in that seat while you drive and god forbid you crash that air bag will deploy no matter what they weigh so you have to decide if its worth fixing or not. I chose to just disconnect the sensor and let it be but if you carry kids or like you said a cat then you might think twice about it. I speak from my own accident and experience so im not guessing here and if you wants pics of my car and accident including the deployed passenger side air bag I can provide them to you. Hope that helps

Best Regards

Rosario717

 

Thank you! My exact thoughts, great to have it confirmed sorry to have it been at the cost of you crashing!