** Mechanic Help Please **

[StonehamPark]

Audi A3 '57 - 1.6L - 3dr

Airbag light came on last Saturday during out of nowhere and I have no idea why it's there or how to get rid!

Anyone know best and worst case (cost) scenarios?

Cheers.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

These warning lights are now also part of the MOT test .....

Good luck

 

[Tory Boy]

Loose connection under your seat.

Call the AA.

TB

 

[Soulman]

Was the wife in the passenger seat??

 

[StonehamPark]

Was the wife in the passenger seat??

We were up at the Devils Dyke that evening

 

[golddene]

Audi A3 '57 - 1.6L - 3dr

Airbag light came on last Saturday during out of nowhere and I have no idea why it's there or how to get rid!

Anyone know best and worst case (cost) scenarios?

Had a similar problem in my beema airbag light would come on intermittently at first and then began to stay on longer and longer, took it for the mot pre-test for repair and it was the sensor under the passenger seat squab £58.00 for the garage to try out the easier sensor under the bonnet then £150.00 plus labour for the leather seat covering to be removed and the offending element wire sensor to be replaced total cost with a new shocker and ticket £657.00. Hope yours is the cheaper solution.

Cheers.

seagulls

 

[Soulman]

We were up at the Devils Dyke that evening

Could see how much these charge.
http://www.dashwarninglights.co.uk/

 

[WATFORD zero]

Could see how much these charge.
http://www.dashwarninglights.co.uk/

or

 

[c0lz]

Loose connection under your seat.

Call the AA.

TB

Had the same problem but was easily fixed .

 

[Soulman]

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[StonehamPark]

Had the same problem but was easily fixed .

How did you fix it?

 

[c0lz]

How did you fix it?

Wiring had come apart just reconnected it .

 

[Brian Parsons]

What you and all other drivers are experiencing is our desire to be in a safe cocoon of air bags and deformable structures but with this goes the tedium of electrical glitches within your on board ECU.

 

[scooter1]

Call pfeiffers in Hove, good bunch down there. It's where I always used to take my A4

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Ive got a Jeep, and recently had a battery problem. Called AA for home start, and he tried to put a charge through the battery. No joyso he swopped the battery. No problem.
Hang on I said, there is an Engine Management Light on, ah says patrol man, you just need the to get it reset at a Jeep dealer, its because we disconected the battery. No problem.
Oh says the man at the Jeep service centre, it turns out its not a battery code, and a full Diagnostic check reveals that the AA man has put to big a charge through, and blown the
ECU, cost of new one £1100 plus fitting.
Moral of this tale, not all AA men are brilliant mechanics, and modern cars with ECU's, can have expensive electrical gliches.

 

[Weststander]

Call pfeiffers in Hove, good bunch down there. It's where I always used to take my A4

Or Caffyns if you want your bank account emptied.

 

[Superseagull]

Call pfeiffers in Hove, good bunch down there. It's where I always used to take my A4

Agree with this. Nice guys tucked away in a Hove side street. As good as independent VAG garage as you are likely to find. Always used them for servicing.

 

[Socialist Sid]

My old, but faithfull, Peugeot failed the mot on this.

My mechanic, who I trust, told me the repair bill could be anything between a fiver and a few hundred, dependent on where the break in the wire is.

There's a fault finding test to find out where the possible breaks are that cost about 30 quid.

As mentioned before, mine was also just a loose connection under the passenger seat that rectified itself after moving the said seat a few times.

 

[hybrid_x]

Audi A3 '57 - 1.6L - 3dr

Airbag light came on last Saturday during out of nowhere and I have no idea why it's there or how to get rid!

Anyone know best and worst case (cost) scenarios?

Cheers.

sheesh, hardly a mechanic problem....."a light is on" ...I have an axle and differential in bits as all mangled, with a crushed wheel bearing sprinkled on top..........can we swap problems?

 

[BN9 BHA]

sheesh, hardly a mechanic problem....."a light is on" ...I have an axle and differential in bits as all mangled, with a crushed wheel bearing sprinkled on top..........can we swap problems?

Is this your car?