READ IMPORTANT FOR YOUR SAFETY : SRS Light - $1500+ part
The seat belts lock automatically if you tug them quickly, that is a standard safety feature on every car.
The sensor to deploy the air bags may be bad, but trust me your seat belts will lock during an accident.
Go to your car put the seat belt on then tug it very quickly, it will lock. Hard to explain how it works, but it takes a certain amount of pulling force on the seat belt to engage the locking mechanism.
The sensor to deploy the air bags may be bad, but trust me your seat belts will lock during an accident.
Go to your car put the seat belt on then tug it very quickly, it will lock. Hard to explain how it works, but it takes a certain amount of pulling force on the seat belt to engage the locking mechanism.
Most vehicles have a fail safe where airbags should deploy in a crash anyway.
I was a tech for BMW, and we had a similiar problem with the seatbelts on the Mini's, and BMW's caused by too high of a resistance in the wires leading to the seatbelt, and the fix was to replace the wires.
Might be a similiar situation...
I was a tech for BMW, and we had a similiar problem with the seatbelts on the Mini's, and BMW's caused by too high of a resistance in the wires leading to the seatbelt, and the fix was to replace the wires.
Might be a similiar situation...
Buy the service manual
Get the service manual and start figuring this one out for yourself, the dealership will just keep replacing items until they get it right. The SRS has to do with the air bag, not the seat belts. The seat belts work off a g-lock and are completely mechanical. The SRS light is telling you there is something wrong with the system and that it's letting you know the air bag is deactivated. Similar to an ABS warning, you still have brakes but no abs.
^^ thats a good idea except if they are gunna replace a bunch of stuff for free why wouldnt i let them ????? they gave me a brand new driveshaft when the t-case was whineing cuz they thought that was it, and i let them lol
Or you could wear a harness 
I didn't intend for this to become the epicenter of a harness vs. belt debate but whatever your choice, safety first... Glad you paid attention to your dashboard.
I didn't intend for this to become the epicenter of a harness vs. belt debate but whatever your choice, safety first... Glad you paid attention to your dashboard.
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I wonder how much you could get out of mitsu if you DID get in a crash and the airbags did not deploy.
The seat belts lock automatically if you tug them quickly, that is a standard safety feature on every car.
The sensor to deploy the air bags may be bad, but trust me your seat belts will lock during an accident.
Go to your car put the seat belt on then tug it very quickly, it will lock. Hard to explain how it works, but it takes a certain amount of pulling force on the seat belt to engage the locking mechanism.
The sensor to deploy the air bags may be bad, but trust me your seat belts will lock during an accident.
Go to your car put the seat belt on then tug it very quickly, it will lock. Hard to explain how it works, but it takes a certain amount of pulling force on the seat belt to engage the locking mechanism.
Thats the tensioner your talking about. A pretensioner is something totally different and only comes on in the event of a crash. If the SRS light is on the tensioner will still work but pretesioner will not. The tensioner may come on too late in the event of a crash possibly causing more injury then if it locked right away.
most of the time if you replace the seat belt it will fix the srs light, unless there is something wrong with the controll unit. call around to a local airbag specialist, they maybe able to help pin point the problem. If you continue going to the dealership you may never get the problem fixed.