Does removing the passenger airbag control unt trigger the warning light?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Hamann on February 19, 2012 at 1:36pm

I'm interested in this as well.  I just roved the driver and passenger air bags and installed the 3 ohm resisters, but my airbag light went off right away.  I just removed the airbag and main warning lights for the time being.  I read the write up on the 944s2.com page and it sounds like the control units needed to be left in, but if there is a way to take them out I'd like to know.

Thanks, Dan

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Permalink Reply by Cloud9...68 on February 19, 2012 at 11:51pm

Dan,

There are three connectors going into the airbag control unit, each with 12 pins.  There's a pink connector, an off-white one, and a blue one.  On the blue connector, you need to jumper the #11 and #12 pins, according to Ivan of IMA Motorsports, to trick the car into thinking the airbag control unit is still connected.  

But you don't need to remove the ABCU (which is a royal pain) to test this;  just remove the blue connector and jumper the two pins to see if it helps your problem.  I'm not sure that it will, though, since to get the lights to go out, you need to convince the car's electrical system that the airbag modules and ABCU are still connected, so I don't see how disconnecting the ABCU will accomplish this.  It's strange that the 3 ohm resistor trick didn't work for you - I did this years ago, and I never got a warning light.  Did you disconnect the battery a good hour before you disconnected the airbag modules?

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