Electrical question

[clivvy]

chaps, can I ask you something with regards my Fiat? I am swapping out the seats, from cloth to leather. Turns out the connector on the seat for the air bag is different on the new leather seats.

Looking at both, the wires are exactly the same-same colour, same position, same pins inside the plug, just the plug is different.

With this in mind, would it be simple to just cut off the plug I need, and solder back onto the new seats (using solder/heat shrink)??

I cant see a reason why this wouldnt work, and I know the seats are correct. the plugs changed at some point in the cars life, Fiat changed the plugs because the old design seemed to get loose too easy-causing air bag warning on the dash. The new plug is just bigger and better.

what do you think?

 

[davenclaire]

yes thats fine but disconnect the battery before you do anything iv got a rover 75 and they suffer from intermittent air bag light and the cure is to cut out the connectors and solder the wires directly so i see no reason you cant do the same

 

[clivvy]

yes thats fine but disconnect the battery before you do anything iv got a rover 75 and they suffer from intermittent air bag light and the cure is to cut out the connectors and solder the wires directly so i see no reason you cant do the same

awesome!! yes, the Stilo has a similar solution except rather than sodlering the wires together, you have to make a little resister board. basically it fools the ECU into thinking there is someone in the seat-which means the airbag will go off in the veent of an accident, therefore no error on the dash!

so, ill have a look at doing that, fingers crossed!

 

[vince]

chaps, can I ask you something with regards my Fiat? I am swapping out the seats, from cloth to leather. Turns out the connector on the seat for the air bag is different on the new leather seats.

Looking at both, the wires are exactly the same-same colour, same position, same pins inside the plug, just the plug is different.

With this in mind, would it be simple to just cut off the plug I need, and solder back onto the new seats (using solder/heat shrink)??

I cant see a reason why this wouldnt work, and I know the seats are correct. the plugs changed at some point in the cars life, Fiat changed the plugs because the old design seemed to get loose too easy-causing air bag warning on the dash. The new plug is just bigger and better.

what do you think?

just be careful that they are the same wires, i owned a fiat uno some years ago and the wiring diagrams were next to useless as they must just use whatever colour they have most of in the factory, may not be so bad on more modern stuff but mine was a nightmare

 

[clivvy]

just be careful that they are the same wires, i owned a fiat uno some years ago and the wiring diagrams were next to useless as they must just use whatever colour they have most of in the factory, may not be so bad on more modern stuff but mine was a nightmare

ok, will do, ill have a good study tonight before i do anything. at a glance, they look the same wires etc. they do the same job on both seats, same car, same ecu etc etc so all i can think is they changed the plug to make it a tighter fit.

 

[jims-terrano]

As said Clivvy make sure the battery is disconnected. Anyway we're expecting snow why do you want to go and do a foolish thing like play with the Fiat when you've got the Mav to play out in:thumbs

 

[clivvy]

As said Clivvy make sure the battery is disconnected. Anyway we're expecting snow why do you want to go and do a foolish thing like play with the Fiat when you've got the Mav to play out in:thumbs

yeah yeah!!
i just needed to get the seats in, didnt realsie id hit this problem!!

MOT runs out on the Mav on Thursday, then its off the road :/

 

[96terrano]

When I put new seats in a vectra for a friend, I just cut the connectors off both the seat and car loom and crimped on spade connectors

 

[clivvy]

well, everything is now done. I have swapped a set of leather seats into my Stilo, and i simply chopped off the old connector, and soldered on the proper one, all working fine!

 

[jims-terrano]

Well done Clivvy:thumbs