Good evening all,
After spending 2 hours trawling through the millions of threads on here I cant seem to find an answer so i'll ask outright.
I'm currently helping a friend rebuild a 2008 Fiat 500 poplar for his daughter to have on her 17th birthday in August. We are HGV mechanics by trade so neither of us have had much to with airbags and collision systems. We have changed the front slam panel, bonnet, bonnet bumper etc however we are now at the airbags. We've sourced new airbags and airbag module and have the old ones stripped out. On the initial scan of the system it had what we expected as fault codes for the deployed bags and stored crash data. My friend being the savvy shopper that he is, managed to get a 2nd hand airbag module. After plugging that in however it turns out that it had its own stored codes, one of which was lh front sensor fault. After refitting the original airbag module the sensor fault seems to have transferred across. Has anyone come across this before? Finally is there anything else to be wary of that would deploy the new airbags after we,ve fitted them?
I have sussed the basics:disconnect the battery, wait 30 minutes before connecting the new airbags, be wary of static build up etc.
Any advice on these issues would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
After spending 2 hours trawling through the millions of threads on here I cant seem to find an answer so i'll ask outright.
I'm currently helping a friend rebuild a 2008 Fiat 500 poplar for his daughter to have on her 17th birthday in August. We are HGV mechanics by trade so neither of us have had much to with airbags and collision systems. We have changed the front slam panel, bonnet, bonnet bumper etc however we are now at the airbags. We've sourced new airbags and airbag module and have the old ones stripped out. On the initial scan of the system it had what we expected as fault codes for the deployed bags and stored crash data. My friend being the savvy shopper that he is, managed to get a 2nd hand airbag module. After plugging that in however it turns out that it had its own stored codes, one of which was lh front sensor fault. After refitting the original airbag module the sensor fault seems to have transferred across. Has anyone come across this before? Finally is there anything else to be wary of that would deploy the new airbags after we,ve fitted them?
I have sussed the basics:disconnect the battery, wait 30 minutes before connecting the new airbags, be wary of static build up etc.
Any advice on these issues would be greatly appreciated
Thanks