Airbag light with Scuderia seats in standard F430

Heres the one i bought..oem CPOD sensor part 80936700

 

THANK YOU

 

You can use the key on the rolight side of the dash to override the airbag if you have a babyseat, etc

Apparently in America, they felt it was necessary to automate this control using a sensor, as opposed to common sense

 

So, I went to the Ferrari dealer this week for my brake cap recall and got some very interesting information.

I wish I had done what Lorenzo did, this is definitely the best solution.

This is what I found out:

The US model ECU (which is in our cars when we get them in the US) looks for a CPOD sensor in the passenger seat. If one is not connected you will get a solid airbag light on the dashboard.

So, I put in a European ECU which does not look for the CPOD sensor and you'd think, voila, right? WRONG! Don't know if this is common practice, but apparently Ferrari stores the passenger airbag serial number in the airbag ECU, so when I swapped my ECU, I broke that relationship - airbag light on the dash. The new EU ECU had no airbag information in it.

Lorenzo put a CPOD sensor in his passenger seat, put his original ECU back in and everything was fine, no light as all conditions were met in the ECU.

I was reluctant to crack my seat cover open for fear I could not put it back properly and thought, I'll just get the dealer to reset the airbag light when I do the brake recall (not realizing what was going on).

So the dealer cleared out the error condition, explained this all to me, unfortunately, now I have a blinking airbag error light which basically means 'waiting for information'. They cleared out the error condition, but now they need my original ECU serial number, and the serial number on the airbag (so they have to take that out), they have to enter all the info and cycle the system and all will be proper, sadly, they want $1200 to do this.

Once that gets done, then my car will work like an EU car, will not look for a CPOD (which I'm not complaining about, never liked it) and will not have a dash light.

 

I have a 2006 non-scud F430. I just replaced the seats with Recaro's. It's unusual, my driver's seat had the wiring on the buckle side of the seat belt. The harness being part of the Daytona seat, left me nowhere to attach it once the daytona was removed. I never got a seat belt light. I found that unusual first. Today, I removed the passenger to install the recaro, expecting the CPOD harness to be there and planning to make accommodations based on this thread, not only was there no CPOD harness, the buckle had no wiring either. No seat belt light and no airbag light illuminated. All worked in my favor but I still found it unusual. Perhaps prior to 2007 they didn't have them.... I don't know for sure but that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Thanks for all the info. Super helpful.

 

So 2006 cars still doesnt have the baby smart seats which have the CPOD/s. I found this out too when I installed race seats. The passenger side does not require anything plugged in and the drivers side only has the seat belt buckle to plug in. Your good to go!

 

Also this is the airbag module 2005-2006 uses for no CPOD. If you have a CPOD you might need a Euro module to make it work...or this will probably work too.
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