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Andy B

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Re: Disable passenger airbag?
« Reply #15 on: 06 August 2017, 20:16:03 »

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That is cr*p. It is illegal to have a child seat (with child) fitted in the front passenger seat of a vehicle equipped with a passenger airbag, period. The only legal exception is where a vehicle has the option to disable the passenger airbag

Full stop!   >:(

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Re: Disable passenger airbag?
« Reply #16 on: 06 August 2017, 20:21:40 »

I thought it was just illegal to have a rear facing seat in the front of a car  :-\ There's no provision in my Smarts to turn the airbag off, though my Merc us like  later Omegas in that you can pay through the nose for a seat that is able to talk to the car & disable the its airbag.
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Re: Disable passenger airbag?
« Reply #17 on: 06 August 2017, 20:50:18 »

https://www.gov.uk/child-car-seats-the-rules/using-a-child-car-seat-or-booster-seat

Fitting a child car seat
You must only use a child car seat if your car’s seat belt has a diagonal strap, unless the seat is either:

specifically designed for use with a lap seat belt
fitted using ISOFIX anchor points
You must also:

deactivate any front airbags before fitting a rear-facing baby seat in a front seat

not fit a child car seat in side-facing seats
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Re: Disable passenger airbag?
« Reply #18 on: 06 August 2017, 22:06:30 »

Mercs have a sensor in the seat base that know when a acr seat has been fitted. Mine was forever going wrong, it kept the dash light on when an adult was in the passenger seat and didnt seem to want to reset.

It wasnt a permanent thing, I think I did it twice because I had the boot full in the omega estate and in the v70. 

My crash was because the ejit infront decided to brake sharp with no indicators then said sorry and wanted to keep it quiet
not because of my youthful position I happend to have when I was 18
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Re: Disable passenger airbag?
« Reply #19 on: 07 August 2017, 19:19:54 »

Every car manual has the correct position to put the seat in. This happens to be the correct driving position anyway.  Fully reclined is for Lord Opti or that Tigger fella's shagging antics.

That way you can ensure your airbag hits you properly in the moosh, like its supposed to.
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Re: Disable passenger airbag?
« Reply #20 on: 07 August 2017, 19:20:53 »

My crash was because the ejit infront decided to brake sharp with no indicators then said sorry and wanted to keep it quiet
That was bloody lucky, because it was 100%, completely, utterly your fault :)
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