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I've got an old focus that I can't turn the airbag off in, and I want to put a child seat in. Can I simply remove a fuse somehow?
Drive it over a small bump.
It's what I did in my Focus, set off the airbag, sorted, airbag disabled 🙂
The airbag flap swinging up did smash the windscreen too mind...
Sure you can't disable it? There usually is a way.
Seat can't go in the back? (it's safest there anyway)
Also, I think the rule only applies to rear-facing seats.
I suspect that if you remove the fuse it'll flag an airbag warning fault, and on my car at least this turns off ALL the airbags.
I assume we're talking rear facing child seat? No requirement to disable AFAIK if it's forward facing. What age are we talking about BTW?
yeah rear facing
Is there not a key slot in the glove box for such things?
Some of the older Focus you couldn't as standard.
no. hence my question.
(shouldn't mods at the very least be able to read?) ;o)
Your options are to change car then or just leave the seat in the back.
As of this year I think an airbag light on the dash is an MOT fail and so pulling fuses regularly may have a potential to mess something up which you later need.
(shouldn't mods at the very least be able to read?) ;o)
You said you couldn't turn it off. Didn't say anything about it not being possible.
pedant. :oD
Why can't the seat go in the back?
pedant. :oD
And? (-:
It was a semi-serious point, to be fair. It wasn't obvious to me from the OP whether you knew categorically that it couldn't be done or simply hadn't yet found out how to do it.
the bike goes in the back
Get a roof rack.
If the missus complains, you could put the bike on it instead.
IIRC the early Focus' had a weight sensor in the passenger seat, anything under 25kg wouldn't arm the airbag.
For the life of me, I can't figure out how the hell you'd verify that though.