How do you Override the passenger seat wire for air bag

From past experience you would just need to ground the wire. I would start there and see if this works for you.

Vincent

 

Have you tried turning off the passenger side airbag by using the switch in the door jam?

 

great find ,it took me a long time to find a 430 spider with factory racing seats,on mine there is no air bag switch to turn it off like the 430 with daytona had.your going to love the seats it just makes the exprience so much better

 

Please use a voltmeter first to confirm that the wire you want to ground does not have +12v coming from it. Sparky no good.

 

Do you have:

Brown/Red
Yellow
Black

?

 

OK, black is ground, brown is +ve, and yellow is a sense wire to the airbag ECU.

The problem with the three wire sensor is that it is not a simple make or break circuit, and to the best of my knowledge grounding the sense wire won't work.

Maybe someone else has experience here but I wouldn't be surprised if the functionality must be coded out.

 

Just reading a bit more about the sensors and a lot of them are a negative coefficient with weight i.e. effectively earthed with an adult sat on the seat.

You could try bridging the black and yellow wire, but if it works you wouldn't be sure if the airbag ECU thinks the seat is occupied or not i.e. couldn't be sure if the airbag will go off in an accident.

 

You need a tool to reset the airbag with the factory seat plugged in.

I would suggest to post pictures. I didn't do anything if I recall except make sure the oem seat receptacles were plugged in on the carbon seats I used to replace the Daytona seats.

On my lambo I had to trick the seat with bypass plugs because the Lambo seats had an airbag in them. The Ferrari f430 seats didn't have any airbag in them to trick. Just plug in the seat belt receptacle I believe.

 

Did this bypass sensor end up working? I am in the exact same situation and needed to turn the airbag light off that was caused due to the missing occupancy sensor.
Thanks!

 

For whatever it's worth and I'm not sure if this would apply to the F430 the same as it does to the 360.

When I installed those same seats in my 360, I simply left all the wiring unplugged that was plugged in to my original power seats. This accomplished a couple of things including no more warning chime for the seat belt and no airbag light or warning at all.

Again.. The F430 could be completely different but just wanted to share my experience as it could be a place for you to start.

Good luck! Congrats on the seats!

 

Did the seat occupancy sensor emulator end up working when you reset the airbag light?

 

Anybody experience with the same process in the 458?

 

The sensor emulator from Ebay Worked ?