Airbag light and recirc air flap

I am assuming you have a 406. Others have experience of the airbag problem, I understand that it is a joint under the seat where the seatbelt pretensioner connects in and most people seem to solder it. I believe there is a similar joint under each front seat and both can cause the problem. Mine were both done when still under warranty.

I have personal experience of the recirc motor. It is accessible (but not visible) when you remove the glove box (two hinge pins) and extract the plate behind it. You can also get to it by laying on your back in the footwell and reaching up. Before disconnecting the motor, make sure that the flap is in the open position (you can see the flap if you remove the grid and pollen filter underneath the passenger side windscreen wiper). With the ignition on you can locate the motor behind the glove box by feeling for the vibration, it is to the right of the hole behind the glovebox. Locate the wire coming from it and feel along to a large connector. It can be unplugged at this point but it is a bit of a fight to get it out. The problem with the motor is caused by the plastic gears inside the unit stripping off teeth. Some people have replaced the gears with ones bought in model shops but I think the main problem is a small electronic device which I suspect is supposed to detect the increased power demand when the flap reaches the end of its travel and cut the power.

"Mal" wrote in news:6bV3f.546$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net:

Let me guess... is it a 306?

Bzzzz... thanks for playing....its a 406!!!

Mal

WOW..... can't beleive how simple it was to fix the Airbag light. I been driving around for 18 months with the damn thing on. Got under the drivers seat, found 2 wires, fiddled/moved them a bit, but the light stayed on. Went to passengers seat, found same orange wires, fiddled around, pulled saquashed them a bit, light fixed!!! Should have done it ages ago.

Now for the recirc flap - had a quick look, but didn't see anything.......

Mal

When my recirc motor went I was given excellent instructions by Nigel in this group. If you search Google Groups on 'recirculation motor' you should come up with the original posts and many more besides.