Hi guys,


Going to look at a nice B this evening after work. Its on a V plate and covered only 30k miles. A real enthusiast and kept it in pristine condition.

BUT...The guy has warned me that the airbag light keeps coming on.
Is this a sure sign (It is with Alfas!!) that there's something to worry about?
It's got twin airbags if that's any help...

Any help or advice in the next few hours would be great people! I'm due to view it at 6-6.30pm

Cheers,

20v.

Hi mate,
mine came on one day as I braked coming down on to a round about, wasn't an emergancy stop or anything overly hard and it came on.
Took it up to Fiat and they managed to fix it. Believe it or not it was just a lose wire connection, as the wires are under the seat sometimes when you move the seat it will pull on the wires and bring on the light, there isnt a lot of spare wire or give in them.
Take it to your local fiat dealer for peice of mind but.
Hope that helps

OZ

have the same problem on my 20v Turbo. Fiat main dealer says it;s the clockspring? behind the airbag on the steering wheel. it can be cleared by computer if it's just a fault. if it need replacement i was quoted £150 for the part and same again for fitting

Thanks guys
Was hoping it wasn't anything major. *phew*

On an Alfa it's often a sign of major gremlins in the ECU or worse *eek*


Anyone else with a theory??

I dunno the price of a clockspring but I changed llike a gazilion of them, and it's abouth 20 minutes work, and another 10 minutes resetting the airbag system with the fiat pc..

so 150 pounds for the changing..:bang: that shure sounds like a rip off.

disconnect - from batt.
remove airbag
replace broken clockspring
put steering wheel back
reconnectd - to batt.
hook up pc to airbag cpu
reset it
job done..

not to say that this is the prblem with the barchetta in question, only way to find out the problem is let a fiat dealer read out the error code.
it could be anything from a wire to the clockspring, to an broken airbag cpu, or a damage airbag.

cut seeing I changed like 20 clocksprings in 1 year of time @ the fiat dealer, makes me think that it's that one most of the times.

I dont think our main dealer is cheap!, he's the only one who doesn't say "main dealer for that, mate" ....

Dutchie said:

disconnect - from batt.
remove airbag
replace broken clockspring
put steering wheel back
reconnectd - to batt.
hook up pc to airbag cpu
reset it
job done..

cut seeing I changed like 20 clocksprings in 1 year of time @ the fiat dealer, makes me think that it's that one most of the times.

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SO important or itll fuking hurt if it comes out at you!

£150!