500 Help ! Fiat 500 thick newbie!

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500 Help ! Fiat 500 thick newbie!

Baglady1990

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Bit long winded so bear with me!so....
I've pimmped my fiat 500 all by myself
Just fitted a gucci interior and of course airbag problem!!! The seller said the seatbelt pre tensioners may need replacing....as may have deployed...so today im searching for the pre tensioners!! Now seeing as I'm new to all this ? from what I can see my pre tensioners are behind the panels directly below the seatbelts ...I thought they were under or at the side of my seats...all I have located is large springs with silver wire attached to 2 points ...not at all what I thought.... am I wrong? Will I have to replace these? I am crapping myself as I love these new seats! I'm off to a garage Tom to try figure this all out but I just wanted a heads up ...so I don't freak out at the cost/bad news!! So please can someone advise??
 
Did you have the battery discounted when you changed the seats over?
If not the exit will be showing the fault that the seats airbags arent plugged in at it won't automatically reset them with the use of a computer
 
I did I've changed my interior once before and no probs then. Though the last time I changed my steering wheel to cream and the airbag....I hadn't fitted my airbag properly and I got the airbag warning when I started up ...I took the battery off and waited fitted the airbag again ....powered up and all was ok! Im a bit confused! As to why its gone again ....should it have been re set from the time before?
 
Usually when they’ve deployed the twisted wire is pulled right into it but not always. You have to take the back seats out and release the rear inside panel and the kick panel along the dooras well as the top of the seatbelt to take the cream panel off. All a bit of a pain but don’t remove the rear bolt as it goes to the outside world and often snaps when undoing. You can pick them up on eBay cheap, around £20-25 each.
 
What have you replaced? Seats, steering wheel etc. ? Some air bags are dual stage, if the seat belt tensioner were ok I don't see why they'd be a issue if you've not touched them?
Ie you'll have issues trying to fit a dual stage steering wheel to a single stage (older) system
 
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What have you replaced? Seats, steering wheel etc. ? Some air bags are dual stage, if the seat belt tensioner were ok I don't see why they'd be a issue if you've not touched them?

Ie you'll have issues trying to fit a dual stage steering wheel to a single stage (older) system



No, that wouldn’t work! Needs to plug into MES me thinks to find out where the problem is.
 
I replaced the steering wheel the stalk and all the seats plus 3 seatbelts as I got the gucci stripe ones I did have an airbag issue as I had not fitted it properly in the steering wheel but after I sorted it everything was ok....until I got the gucci interior and fitted it then the airbag error came back!!! The pre tensioners were never touched and never had an issue with those
 
Its my airbag in the passenger side seat my mechanic is doing some research over the weekend but worst case.... my seat is useless any ideas ...can the airbag be replaced? Will it work again?
 
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