My 2008 GT is showing "Passenger Air Bag Off" even with a person belted in. Also, the little icon stays lit. I checked under the pass. seat and the two electrical connectors seem OK.
Any ideas to fix this? I hate going to the dealer for any fixes.
The air bag is designed to be off if a child of a certain weight is in the passenger seat. My light was on when I had a trash bag filled with aluminum cans in the passenger seat, and I was off to the recycle place.
Without getting too intrusive, might I ask for an approximation of the passenger's weight?
this can be caused by many different reasons. does it happen often or with more than one person?
also if the person is sitting off center in the seat the occupant weight sensor will detect this and turn off the squibbs for the passanger bag and indicate this on the dash. if you are buckled in and pick your butt off of the seat it will go off... if you have the car running and you put you hand on the middle of the seat this will also turn the bag off. if it is a permanent problem (every time someone is in the seat the bag is off) take it to the dealer the occupant weight sensor (OWS) may need to have a zero point calibration performed.
We have a 2007 GT Convertable. My wife weighs 122 lbs. The passenger off light comes on at times even when she is sitting correctly in the seat. We have had it back 4 times and they at last had an engineer from Ford look at it. The answer was it was performing as designed.
We took this problem up with the Better Business Bureau. They had an arbitrator hear the case. They agreed with Ford.
Last April Hyundai recalled 2006-2008 Sonatas for this exact same problem.
We went to look at a new GMC truck today. My wife got in the passenger seat and it acted the same way. We did not buy the truck.
When she uses a seat cushion it seems to be OK. We were told that her weight is more evenly distrbuted to all the sensor pads with a seat cushion.
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