As above, anyone able to shed any light?

I've changed the sensor itself, same fault showing.

When I first scanned, only showed up 'B0111 side impact sensor left, present'. After changing the sensor I also had a code for side impact sensor Right, intermittent. This cleared, however.

Mot due soon, so help appreciated!

And yes, I changed the Nearside sensor, Haha.

Craig

Apologies for bringing up a now very old thread, but by any chance did you manage to fix this? I have a 2007 Punto with the same code B0111 side impact sensor and did the same as you, replaced the sensoes (many times) but we also checked all the wiring for corrosion, breakages etc. We're sending the airbag ECU off to get cleared and recoded because it isn't picking up the existence of the two side crash sensors, as we put the supposedly faulty sensor in the other side of the car but the fault persisted. Did you ever figure out what the problem was in your case?

typecastboy you ever had a car with issues with the side impact sensors

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typecastboy you ever had a car with issues with the side impact sensors

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No, never. My current car has a side smash right below the sensor and it’s still working. I’ve never known one to fail. I suspect the ECU rather than the sensor.

typecastboy said:

No, never. My current car has a side smash right below the sensor and it’s still working. I’ve never known one to fail. I suspect the ECU rather than the sensor.

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That's what my mechanic was thinking too, he said it seems that the airbag module isn't registering the existence of the side impact sensors anymore so he removed it and send it to a specialist who will reinstall the files on it according to the barcode on the crash sensor. I thought it made a lot of sense and he couldn't imagine what else it could be.

I'm sort of dreading what you're going to get charged for that.

typecastboy said:

I'm sort of dreading what you're going to get charged for that.

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I know. I'm actually hoping it won't be too bad though, the lads I go to are always very reasonable, they've never charged me for diagnosing a problem, only for actually fixing it. There are a couple of occasions in which I've taken the car for inspections and they wouldn't take any money. They said getting an airbag module sent off to be wiped by a 3rd party is like 150-200 euros so whatever that turns out to be plus labour. I'm prepared for the worse though. In fairness to them, they've spent a lot of time going through the car looking for the problem. I'm lucky in that the guy I go to used to be a Fiat-Alfa mechanic.

Hi - did this sort the issue? I'm trying to sort my daughters fiat 500. Side sensor errors shown on both left and right which won't reset. While I've not yet replaced the sensors, to me its fairly implausible that both have failed.