Most airbag system faults are open circuit at the connectors
Have you looked at the Stilo Guides so you get the idea?
Removing seat will be required for access

Code 14 -drivers side airbag squib is driver's -side air bag rather than "drivers side" air bag. With me?


Side air bag just for reference (no need to remove this)


So side air bag connector is here. Electrical contact cleaner to clean up the contacts and might be a cheap and cheerful fix

thanks for your reply so are you saying the fault may be under the seat and not necessarily behind the air bag on the steering wheel that has been suggested to me which would cost a lot more for him to fix

Teddy

Yes the Italian translates badly into English but there's the
Driver's air bag- that's the one in the steering wheel
Driver's side air bag -that's the one in the side of the seat
and there's also the
Driver's rear side air bag if you have side air bags in the rear


So these are called the side airbags and the window (or curtain) airbags


The one you'll hopefully be after is this little green one here. Use electrical contact cleaner, nothing else, not WD40, allow to dry and fingers crossed

thank you once again for all you help and advice

The one you'll hopefully be after is this little green one here. Use electrical contact cleaner, nothing else, not WD40, allow to dry and fingers crossed

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i thought wd40 was for electrics , well will check under the seats to make shaw there is no crap under there from the kids and check that nothing has come lose

Teddy

Each product is good for their own uses. WD40 disperses water and applies an oily film to prevent it rehappening and corrosion. That's not the problem with airbag connectors, they have suffered surface oxidation which creates resistance and lack of electrical contact. Airbag checking circuit works on very low voltages so they need near zero resistance

You want to bring them back like new again so electrical contact cleaner etches through the surface layer and throughly cleans the contact without leaving any sticky residue

Hi deckchair..

New to stilos and enjoying the car....

I just fitted lockwood dials and to my amazement found the lcd readout (miles time date etc) partly covered up with black tape, i removed it did the dials and fitted the clocks back..

Everything was in portugese so set about getting it in english (did that)

then reset time date etc and then started car inial checks were ok no warning lights at all then bing bing bing airbag failure warning read across readout... now with no lights on the dash do you reckon this is the same as teddy and the other chaps who posted

cheers

john

It's the same in that you have Airbag circuit Failure warning but just where in the circuit you'd need to find out either by trial and error to the most common problems (See Stilo Guides) or, more accurately and quickly, by having your airbag fault codes read

It said power loss fault 02, and passenger side seat squib didnt write the code down sorry, where is that and after doing a code reader test (snap on system reader) and cleared fault codes those 2 kept repeating themselves..

cheers

passenger side seat squib will be the mirror image of Teddy's above but in the passenger's seat

well would like to post some up to date information

i had i in a auto electrition and he charged me £30 for ten minutes and would not comitt himself to the problem never mind a price .

basicaly all i did was cleaned under the drivers seat as there was some rubbish ( sweet papers , paper and a pen) , got rid of that and made shaw all the wires seamed neat and pushed all the conectors togeter and the problem went .so ten minutes saved me £££.

i went back to the auto electrition and he said if it has sorted the problem it best left alone although to come back if it starts , yes think if it happens again i just check the conectors .

thanks again

Teddy

Sorry to wake an old post up but........

I have an 04 stilo 2 door, connectors under the seats have been removed and the wires soldered, this cured one of the problems with the passenger squib circuit going open circuit.

The driver seat was manky and torn so i replaced both seats resoldering the connections under the seats.

Still have the 0E side airbag (driver) squib open circuit error.

I have taken the drivers seat apart and sprayed contact cleaner in the plug at the airbag module, re-fitted, scanned and still the same error.

any ideas??