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05omegav6

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Is it just me?
« on: 20 March 2015, 12:45:38 »
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #1 on: 20 March 2015, 12:52:42 »


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« Reply #2 on: 20 March 2015, 14:05:38 »
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #3 on: 20 March 2015, 14:07:47 »
Quote from: aaronjb on 20 March 2015, 14:05:38
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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« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2015, 14:16:05 »
Quote from: aaronjb on 20 March 2015, 14:05:38
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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« Reply #5 on: 20 March 2015, 14:42:54 »
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.

Quote from: Doctor Opti on 20 March 2015, 14:07:47
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #6 on: 20 March 2015, 15:02:21 »
Is the RX8 living, then? :o
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« Reply #7 on: 20 March 2015, 15:51:47 »
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #8 on: 20 March 2015, 18:15:07 »
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #9 on: 20 March 2015, 18:25:27 »
Quote from: joff on 20 March 2015, 18:15:07
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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« Reply #10 on: 20 March 2015, 18:39:49 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 20 March 2015, 18:25:27
Quote from: joff on 20 March 2015, 18:15:07
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #11 on: 21 March 2015, 19:56:20 »
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #12 on: 21 March 2015, 20:52:19 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 21 March 2015, 19:56:20
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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Re: Is it just me?
« Reply #13 on: 21 March 2015, 21:05:29 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 21 March 2015, 20:52:19
Quote from: TheBoy on 21 March 2015, 19:56:20
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 :)
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