disabling the passenger airbag? is this possible?

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01-29-2003, 06:13 AM

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Have a look at this

http://www.airbagswitches.com/

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01-29-2003, 06:16 AM

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I am going to see if they have a franchise in the UK

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01-29-2003, 06:24 AM

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It's very easy to take the airbag out. It's only a couple of screws.

You basically need to unhook the battery, undo the panel from the underside of the dash so you can get to the airbag plug (yellow connector) stick a two ohm resistor in the yellow connector and then re-connect the battery.

The SRS system will think that the passenger air bag is till connected and all the other SRS items will function as before.

The only thing I'm not sure about is what Wattage or Voltage (I get confused) the resistor needs to be, can anyone help with this.

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01-29-2003, 06:39 AM

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Originally posted by zero_to60
it can't be that difficult for Honda to disable the airbags - I am pretty sure that I read somewhere that airbags were designed to cater for those drivers in the US that don't wear a seat belt (when I lived in Memphis no one seemed to wear them) so deploy with more force than if they were assumed to be used in conjunction with a seat belt

Its not very difficult, but as I said for liabilty reasons Honda dealers will not / have been instructed by Honda UK not to do it.