Airbag light trick for racing seats.
 

I am assuming if your doing this DIY you have already figured out how to remove the seats and disconnected the the battery and the wires connected to the seat.


First thing you need is a Resister with a resistance of 3.3 Ohms.
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Locate the yellow harness .
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You will notice that there are only 2 wires connected to the harness but are 4 holes (sorry the picture doesn't really show it, i'll try to get a better one before Install the seat tomorrow morning), you want to plug the resistor into the bottom two holes.

No it does not matter which side of the resistor you plug into which hole.

See no light
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Please let me know if I am unclear on anything as I may have had a few beers before writing this :happy0180:, though this is pretty self explanatory and hard to screw up.


Also I am just going to use electrical tape to secure it for now, later I will find the other end of the connector and solder the resistor to that, and insulate it with shrink wrap.

Minor point - the resistor has a resistance of 3.3 Ohms - not impedance.

-J

You sir are correct, I must have been a little drunker than I thought

I'm thinking worse comes to worse. Does anyone know if the airbags will deploy if the wires accidentally detach or resistor fails?

This looks like a great and cheap alternative to the TRD option that will come out soon.

Do you have any information on the TRD option? I didn't just leave the Resistor out like that, I taped it up pretty tight. I am also going to try to find another seat connector to solder one of my extra resistor so it's a little more secure than tape.

I am not sure about it still deploying with the airbag light on. I do know that this trick has been used for years and I have never seen a resistor open.

trd option?

The TRD item im talking about is the "canceller" that comes with the seat rails.

http://www.trdparts.jp/english/86_pe...atestnews.html

I would bet that it's just a pretty version of what I did (and probably over priced).

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I'm willing to bet its basically the same but it will be a cleaner install since they will probably make a housing for it. That's how my steering wheel canceller was like

I could see it being reasonably cheap if they sell it without the seat rails

Airbags will deploy with resistor installed (all other airbags in the car). And if you get short on the wires (if your resistor some how goes 'short') airbags might deploy. So secure your resistor pretty good... ;)

If it gets released here in the states it maybe relatively inexpensive (anything over $25 would be over kill to me but that's relative, like I said). If it's something that only gets released in Japan it'll have that JDM-tax attached to it.

It would be nice to have a have a prettier alternative

technically the impedance of an ideal resistor is its resistance. So you cannot say it was wrong. :thumbup:

Added to the DIY Directory:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7365

heck yeah @ $240 est.