Technical Airbag wiring under seats

[Barchetta in Italy]

I have a 97 barchetta with a permanent air bag light illuminated. I have only had the car for a while and my local garage could not diagnose the fault (computer issues). A common fault seems to be the connectors under the seats getting damaged, or damaging the wires, so I am about to remove the yellow connectors from the air bag wiring and replace with bullets. i checked the wires and see that the colors are different to the manual, and that the wire colors swap through the connector.
I'll explain:
On the drivers side the yellow wire has a blue tape round it comes through the floor with a brown/white wire (on the left) blue (on the right) in it, connecting through the connector to a blue wire (on the left) and a brown wire (on the right). the other wire has 2 plain black wires connecting to 2 plain black wires.

On the passengers side the yellow wire has a brown wire (on the left) blue (on the right) in it, connecting through the connector to a blue wire (on the left) and a brown wire (on the right).

Is this the normal layout? Are the seat belt per-tensioners polarity sensitive?

Also, can I reset the airbag light myself? I did a search and someone mentioned a DIY reset method but no further.

Oh, I can't get the car to a garage till March.....

Thanks

Tom

 

[bollie69]

No you can't reset it, i've got all the cables and stuff but only after 2000 it is possible because the programm doesn't support pre 2000 modelles.
Fiat garage can .. for some bucks

 

[Barchetta in Italy]

Thanks Bollie. Thought that was the case.
I did note that the light went off last week for one day, then on again.

Also just PMed you.

Tom