Hi
I am in the process of fixing up a cat c cooper s (2006 r56), it was in a little accident and the dash airbag and steering wheel airbag deployed, I have visually inspected the seatbelt pretensioners and it appears that only the passenger side has deployed (the drivers looks to be intact but I would welcome any advice on how to check further) so far I have replaced the steering wheel airbag (fairly easy job as followed youtube video) I have also removed the dash I figured out by looking at the replacement dash where the retaining screws were, took a while but got there! the connector was different on the new dash but had the same two wires so I have spliced these to the old one (soldered and then heat shrinked), I was confused as hell as when I checked the wiring with a meter it was showing a closed circuit between the wires, I then looked closer at the connector and found that the two wires join together inside the clip! this appears to be the same at the airbag end as well!
I made a cheeky call to an airbag supplier and he said that only one wire is used the other is a backup (can anyone confirm this? would rather not blow up an airbag and dash to find out!)...
As mentioned above I need to replace at least one pretensioner, the tensioners that I purchased also came with seatbelts, is it essential that I replace these as well as the pretensioners? do they have any sensors in them etc?
Finally I received an airbag ecu with the airbag kit, will this need to be coded to the car to work or is it just plug and play? if it needs to be coded to the car is there any benefit to fitting this new one as opposed to having the old one reset?
last but not least the impact was front N/S will the impact sensor need replacing or does it reset itself after impact?
I have ordered a haynes manual but If anyone has the service manual and could scan over the pages for the airbag and airbag ecu replacement I would be really greatful, as I am trying to get it all fixed up before my wife gets out of hospital next week (not from accident I might add).
Kind regards
Shanos
I am in the process of fixing up a cat c cooper s (2006 r56), it was in a little accident and the dash airbag and steering wheel airbag deployed, I have visually inspected the seatbelt pretensioners and it appears that only the passenger side has deployed (the drivers looks to be intact but I would welcome any advice on how to check further) so far I have replaced the steering wheel airbag (fairly easy job as followed youtube video) I have also removed the dash I figured out by looking at the replacement dash where the retaining screws were, took a while but got there! the connector was different on the new dash but had the same two wires so I have spliced these to the old one (soldered and then heat shrinked), I was confused as hell as when I checked the wiring with a meter it was showing a closed circuit between the wires, I then looked closer at the connector and found that the two wires join together inside the clip! this appears to be the same at the airbag end as well!
I made a cheeky call to an airbag supplier and he said that only one wire is used the other is a backup (can anyone confirm this? would rather not blow up an airbag and dash to find out!)...
As mentioned above I need to replace at least one pretensioner, the tensioners that I purchased also came with seatbelts, is it essential that I replace these as well as the pretensioners? do they have any sensors in them etc?
Finally I received an airbag ecu with the airbag kit, will this need to be coded to the car to work or is it just plug and play? if it needs to be coded to the car is there any benefit to fitting this new one as opposed to having the old one reset?
last but not least the impact was front N/S will the impact sensor need replacing or does it reset itself after impact?
I have ordered a haynes manual but If anyone has the service manual and could scan over the pages for the airbag and airbag ecu replacement I would be really greatful, as I am trying to get it all fixed up before my wife gets out of hospital next week (not from accident I might add).
Kind regards
Shanos