Airbag light button

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:13 pm

After nearly 4 years of ownership, i discovered this button.

(Does anyone disable their passenger side airbag ?)

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Mr Tidy · Post by **Mr Tidy** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:28 pm

I think you'd only disable it with certain child seats in place.

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:32 pm

Manual does not give a reason for it. Is there not a key switch in the side of
the dashboard for that ?

Mr Tidy · Post by **Mr Tidy** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:42 pm

I don't know about the E89s.

I know on my 1 Series and E86s you used the key switch on the side of the dash and the light on the console illuminates.

Have you got a key switch?

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:53 pm

Yes it does. Is why i wondered if the Button had a secondary function ?

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Nictrix · Post by **Nictrix** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:40 pm

Is it not just a light, and not a button.

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Wed Aug 03, 2022 8:48 pm

It flashes for a second when ignition turned on. Airbag armed.
Press the button light stays on and air bag disabled.
(E89 manual page 80)

tigor · Post by **tigor** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:08 pm

I have a child seat in my passenger seat most of the time. I turn the key at the side of the dash and that light illuminates when I start the car. Is it a button too? I haven’t pressed it.

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:12 pm

tigor wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:08 pm I have a child seat in my passenger seat most of the time. I turn the key at the side of the dash and that light illuminates when I start the car. Is it a button too? I haven’t pressed it.

Yeah, in light cluster in front of rear view mirror. I only discovered yesterday.
Still don't understand why, when the usual key switch is in the dash also ????

Where's the logical Pondrew when you need him, he'd know

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 12:22 pm

I guess if you want it permanently disabled you turn the key in the pillar.
But if you are quickly swapping between adults and a baby seat then it's a real faff to dismantle the key, insert the metal bit in the door pillar etc. Much easier to push the button, which I assume resets each time you turn the ignition off?

N4LLY · Post by **N4LLY** » Thu Aug 04, 2022 1:23 pm

How wierd, went to test to see if resets on restart and now the button not lighting up !!??

Probably why i never noticed it before.
Must have been a fluke yesterday. Although i turned on and off the ignition a few times and light flashed each time.
Strange.

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