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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: 05omegav6 on 20 March 2015, 12:45:38
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Following on from...
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=129189.42
In what way is fitting resistors to extinguish the airbag light acceptable? And is it acceptable to suggest it here to fix a car that is currently for sale?
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Caveat emptor, and all that.
In a car that's going up for sale it's perhaps a little underhand as the new owner won't be aware that they don't have the airbags anymore (you can't really argue the airbags are inoperative .. they're not even fitted ;D), if it's for a car that someone themselves owns then it's their shout, IMHO (and I know someone who has done just this on their stripped out track prepped RX8 - and yes, the insurance company know there's no interior left in the car, including the airbags ;D)
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Caveat emptor, and all that.
In a car that's going up for sale it's perhaps a little underhand as the new owner won't be aware that they don't have the airbags anymore (you can't really argue the airbags are inoperative .. they're not even fitted ;D), if it's for a car that someone themselves owns then it's their shout, IMHO (and I know someone who has done just this on their stripped out track prepped RX8 - and yes, the insurance company know there's no interior left in the car, including the airbags ;D)
RX8's are so torque deprived they need all the help they can get. :)
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Caveat emptor, and all that.
In a car that's going up for sale it's perhaps a little underhand as the new owner won't be aware that they don't have the airbags anymore (you can't really argue the airbags are inoperative .. they're not even fitted ;D), if it's for a car that someone themselves owns then it's their shout, IMHO (and I know someone who has done just this on their stripped out track prepped RX8 - and yes, the insurance company know there's no interior left in the car, including the airbags ;D)
Track prepared cars are one thing, and probably the only rational place for such bodgery :y
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True Al - on a road car I'd rather fix what was meant to be there.. which reminds me the light occasionally comes on in my RX8. Boo.
RX8's are so torque deprived they need all the help they can get. :)
;D also true.. he was very much out-torqued at Anglesea the other week when another friend took his BMW 645Ci on track!
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Is the RX8 living, then? :o
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Mine lives enough to start and drive around .. just not very quickly ;D (and I hazard a guess that it'd kill the CAT fairly quickly if I drove it much!)
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I can't understand why the OP just does not put a correct set of seats in the car, after all it not like there is not loads out there. ??? ::)
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I can't understand why the OP just does not put a correct set of seats in the car, after all it not like there is not loads out there. ??? ::)
There's a bit of part swapping been going on, wheels are off a later car. OP bought it for the MV6 seats that were in it but the car is an Elite so it's now on it's third set of seats.
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I can't understand why the OP just does not put a correct set of seats in the car, after all it not like there is not loads out there. ??? ::)
There's a bit of part swapping been going on, wheels are off a later car. OP bought it for the MV6 seats that were in it but the car is an Elite so it's now on it's third set of seats.
Bit of a mix'y blob then :-\
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Using resistors to fool airbag ECUs is a bit retarded really.
But then I've never understood the fascination of fitting the wrong seats to the car :-\
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Using resistors to fool airbag ECUs is a bit retarded really.
But then I've never understood the fascination of fitting the wrong seats to the car :-\
I'd quite like a pair of Sassanach's MV6 and Elite crossbreds...!
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Using resistors to fool airbag ECUs is a bit retarded really.
But then I've never understood the fascination of fitting the wrong seats to the car :-\
I'd quite like a pair of Sassanach's MV6 and Elite crossbreds...!
Ah, but he did it properly :)