2006 Aveo Passenger side airbag sensor

[paulsaveo]

i wouldnt waste my money on a stand alone. Dyno scan for windows with the gm enhancer with a cable will be less that $300 and states it does airbags (would verify the aveo before buying).

the computer based software is cheap, better and as long as you have a cable there are a lot of free versions. you can ever spend a little more (@$400) and rewrite tunes.

Thanks rabbit, I may need to look into that. Even though I work at a toyota dealership, Toyota airbag lights are no problem but we work on all makes and models, and no one in our shop can read air bag lights. One of our techs has an older snapon scantool (it is refferred to as the brick) it can read some domestic airbag lights)

[paulsaveo]

The poor man's version of clearing out the light was also suggested to me... unattach and reattach the battery.

Disconnecting the battery will reset to ecu (ecm) which in general clears lights, but an airbag light is a one key cycle code. basically, if you disconnect the battery, reconnect it, the ecu will go back to its original settings, as soon as the vehicle is started, if their is a problem with the airbag circuit, the light will come back on immediately

[mercurial]

Good to know! At this point, the plan is to find a used seat to replace ours to try to avoid paying $700 for a new one.

[petrified.rabbit]

yes but if the problem is in fact the seat sensor, if he reset it, it might be ok until someone sits in the front seat again.

[mercurial]

My daughter was back in the front seat yesterday and so far it is working properly and the airbag light has not come on. It took about 10 days when we last had it in the dealership between turning the airbag light off (changed the battery) and it coming back on again. Do you mean that it may not be worth it to replace the seat?

[petrified.rabbit]

if the problem is the seat sensor, replace the seat.

i am talking about if you reset the light, without fixing it, it might not come back on immediately depending on what the cause of the light is.