I Want to disconnect the SRS Air Bag System in my 96 300 TDI Land Rover Discovery. I have never had one in any of my other cars and Feel I Will not require it. How do I go about disconnecting it to get rid of the dash light without doing any damage or setting it off. Registration is comming up soon and I dont want to fail all because of a little red light. All help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
|| I Want to disconnect the SRS Air Bag System in my 96 300 TDI Land || Rover Discovery. I have never had one in any of my other cars and || Feel I Will not require it. How do I go about disconnecting it to || get rid of the dash light without doing any damage or setting it || off. Registration is comming up soon and I dont want to fail all || because of a little red light. All help appreciated. Thanks in || advance.
Check with your insurers first - disabling what the manufacturers consider a safety system may well invalidate your policy.
I'm assuming you are from Australia. I believe that they check that the SRS system passes diagnostics - so unless the light comes on and then extinguishes in the normal manner you're going to have to repair it.
On or around Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:25:12 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:
you could make a simple little timer and wire the light up to that instead of what it's meant to be wired to...
BTW, that's not the answer. get it fixed properly.
You're not the first person to have thought of that Austin - I've failed a fair few vehicles for their WOF (MOT equivalent) that have been dodgied up like that.
I don't have insurance so it does not matter if it is disconnected. I dont want SRS How do I disconnect is there a fuse or something to make that light go out. A simple answer is all I am after please. If I have to pull the dash apart so be it. I don't want to set the bloody thing of thats all. Can anyone shed some light on the situation please. I DONT WANT TO FIX IT.
It's fuckwits like you that get the rest of us responsible vehicle owners a bad name. You may find some answers at the link below
http://www.f****it.info/whatis.htm
Your the only f****it, I only asked a simple question but obvouisly it was to hard for a simpleton like you to answer. You sound like and arogant dip shit. Don't bother replying unless you have some constuctive comments as hard as it may be for you.
You probably can't without a lot of effort- they'll check for the light coming on and going off at test, and the things are controlled from elements of your ECU I expect.
Steve
On or around Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:04:43 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:
but how would you know, if the light behaves as it should?
The timing of it is never quite right.... and the vehicles often just don't "feel right" if you know what i mean.
I installed instrument cluster from other Disco with SRS and got the same annoyance with it. I dismantled tach and took bulbs out. Normal warning bulbs will light, when something goes wrong. This one works vice versa. It waits OK signal from ECU to turn itself out
Kalev
On or around Fri, 18 Aug 2006 15:02:39 +0300, Kalev Kadak enlightened us thusly:
yeah, well, if the reason you have an SRS light is that you've fitted a different dash panel, but there's no SRS on the vehicle, then fine, remove the bulb.
The OP gives the impression that the vehicle has SRS, it's faulty (or the ECU is, and giving a false fail signal) and he wants to make it so it'll pass the test without fixing it.
We still don't know where he's located - it might be legal to remove the SRS
- I'm not sure even in the UK whether it's mandatory and if so at what year; it's not something I've bothered to look up as none of my vehicles are new enough to have it. There are a number of things on vehicles which were optional when new but have to work "if fitted" for the test - some of them later became mandatory and disabling them after a certain year is illegal. Indicators on motorbikes spring to mind - mine is 1974 and the indicators (and the switch) have been removed and it's perfectly legal like that, although if it had indicators they'd be required to work and it'd fail the test if they didn't. however (in the UK) after 1986 or 87 sometime the indicators are mandatory and you're not allowed to remove them.
SRS has never been part of the MOT test I do know this for certain as when I did the training I asked the bloke if the light being on was a failure (due to an incident a couple of week earlier with sis's BMW) his answer was a definite NO an advise maybe but not a fail
Surely this has to be a troll?
Doesn't think air bag is useful, doesn't have insurance.
If he doesn't have insurance (assuming it is a legal requirement - which is in pretty much most places) then why is he worried about it passing the local equiv of the MOT?
And whilst I'm replying, I assume he also thinks seatbelts are not really that useful either since cars never had them in the past, why bother fitting them now?!
BTW Andy, if you want to disable the airbag just drive head-on into a brick wall at 40mph, that should sort it out for you.
Matt
The IP addy he's posting from is allocated to Southern Tablelands Electricity in New South Wales, Australia. Hence my references to the Aussie regulations (and the fact they require compulsory insurance just as the UK do). The Aussie connection actually explains quite a lot about his attitude and apparent IQ.
On or around Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:21:55 +0200, Matthew Maddock enlightened us thusly:
have to admit that my favoured technique if I wanted to disable an airbag would be to trigger the sod - either by tracking down the wiring that does it or finding the sensor and giving it a suitable clout. I don't think I'd resort to brick walls.
I hope that's not a generalisation ....
Just a gentle trans-Tasman dig. People like Energizer Bunny redress the balance nicely. :-)
What are you after? You're welcome to it :)
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