Steering Wheel Airbag

[apollo13]

I never bothered with the cruise in the end, i dont drive it enough!

Ill have a play about with the coding and see what happens, but from memory i dont think there was any other options from what iv got.

[john84]

In regard to your 1st question
If the retaining lug on the steering wheel is broken then you would need a new steering wheel. Don't try to fix it with any sort of modification.

Yes you should disconnect the battery Negative, no need to wait. when you do reconnect the battery make sure no one is in the car and turn the ignition on from outside the car. After that you should be able to switch the MIL of in the dash

Eddie, thanks for your reply. can you tell me what the retaining lug looks like? Only thing I can see on the steering wheel is a big torx style screw that holds the steering wheel on and two plastic clips, one on the left and one on the right. One of these clips are broken.

And in regards to reconnecting the battery after disconnecting, I should only turn the ignition from outside the car after i've connected the battery back? not before i reconnect the battery?

[edd666999]

Reconnect the battery go round and turn ignition on. Either and anyway won't deploy the air bag (from my experience)

[Eddie-NL]

Hi
look half down the page of this link and you will see the lug is circled in yellow

http://www.myturbodiesel.com/1000q/a5/paddle-shifter-steering-wheel-swap.htm

Ed

[john84]

Hi
look half down the page of this link and you will see the lug is circled in yellow

http://www.myturbodiesel.com/1000q/a5/paddle-shifter-steering-wheel-swap.htm

Ed

Thanks Ed, 

[john84]

Ed, thanks for your help.

I've got the tabs to install the airbag. I'm trying to install the airbag but don't know which way to feed the small wire. The big wire goes trough the hole into it's socke. And spins with the steering wheel. But where does the small black 5 pin connector go? There looks like a connector on the left of the steering wheel but I'm not sure if the wire is long enough to get there or how to feed the wire to that place

Any help would be great thanks

[john84]

I just installed the airbag and can't seem to find where the second small black colour connector connects to. So I just connected the yellow part of the harness and plugged in the car. Only problem now is that the horn doesn't seem to work.

So now I am assuming that the small black connector is the horn or something, but I'm having trouble finding where I should connect it to

Any help please?

[Eddie-NL]

I just installed the airbag and can't seem to find where the second small black colour connector connects to. So I just connected the yellow part of the harness and plugged in the car. Only problem now is that the horn doesn't seem to work.

So now I am assuming that the small black connector is the horn or something, but I'm having trouble finding where I should connect it to

Any help please?

Hi
by the sounds off it the loom which you have is for a MFSW. I take it your steering wheel is just a standard one with no buttons.

Ed

[john84]

Yes my steering wheel is normal without buttons? That's what I thought maybe it's for the buttons so that's why I left out the black connector but the horn ain't working

Any ideas?

Thanks

[john84]

I've managed to reset airbag light via VAGCOM.

Ed, I definitely think you are correct. The wiring harness I seem to have on the airbag is for the MFSW but my steering wheel is not a MFSW. I need to figure out how to get the horn to work. I've read somewhere that it's possible to make some changes with VAGCOM to get the car to accept the harness.

Any ideas anyone? Or do I have to change the wiring harness? If so, does anyone have the part number for the wiring harness without the MFSW?

Thanks

[Eddie-NL]

I've managed to reset airbag light via VAGCOM.

Ed, I definitely think you are correct. The wiring harness I seem to have on the airbag is for the MFSW but my steering wheel is not a MFSW. I need to figure out how to get the horn to work. I've read somewhere that it's possible to make some changes with VAGCOM to get the car to accept the harness.

Any ideas anyone? Or do I have to change the wiring harness? If so, does anyone have the part number for the wiring harness without the MFSW?

Thanks

Hi
i don't think you can make changes to make the horn work on the harness you have.  I wouldn't risk trying to modify the wiring as it could prove expensive if you get it wrong. I may have a spare loom which I could send you in exchange if you want.

[john84]

i don't think you can make changes to make the horn work on the harness you have.  I wouldn't risk trying to modify the wiring as it could prove expensive if you get it wrong. I may have a spare loom which I could send you in exchange if you want.

Ed,

Thanks for your reply. I'd love to accept your offer for exchanging the looms. so the loom you have will work on a standard 3 spoke steering wheel? Do i simply just remove the loom that is currently connected to the airbag and then install this loom? I cannot seem to send pm's so how do we go about exchanging?

[vRStu]

One more post and you can PM 

[john84]

One more post and you can PM  

Really? so this should work :)

[john84]

Ed, I've sent you a pm