airbag on model 325i (year 2001)

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"Floyd Rogers" <fbloogyuds (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

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"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote
"Floyd Rogers" <fbloogyuds (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote
"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote
"RustY©" <No.Mail (AT) All (DOT) Thanks> wrote
They are. In the UK many cars have rear facing child seats fitted in
the
front and these require the airbag to be switched off.

On our side, if one has a child that rides in a rear-facing seat, that
child should be placed in the back seat of the car. ONLY trucks that
have no back seat have the capacity to disable the Passenger Side air
bag, and in that case only the passenger bag can be disabled. The
driver bag can not be disabled.

Jeff, this no longer is true. Many cars have detection systems, and
the associated warning lights, that disable the passenger-side airbag
if no one is sitting there, or if something "light" is there. For
instance,
our '04 Toyota Highlander.

Tha tmay be true, but is beside the point, given the OP's original
question.

Actually, it's *NOT* beside the point, as I was responding to your
blanket statement about "ONLY trucks". Now, you might argue
that a Toyota Highlander is a truck (I would argue car since it's
a Camry), but I felt that your statement needed correction.

Well, the truck part was not entirely accurate. The passenger side airbag
can be disabled and re-enabled via a key on any vehicle where there are only
front seats. The OP hasn't got one of those, so the distinction seemed
meaningless at the time.

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airbag on model 325i (year 2001)

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Re: airbag on model 325i (year 2001) - 04-16-2007 , 08:43 PM