Air Bag Light not coming on

Hi all,

This is my first post here after lurking in the dark reading many a helpful post, so firstly, hi!

I have a W reg Jimny, and love it. However it got an advisory on it's last MOT, because the air bag light does not light when you turn the ignition.

I have a copy of the service manual, and plan to spend tomorrow running through the checks suggested, and will need to get to the bulb to check it.

The service manual isn't the clearest when it comes to taking apart the instrument panel, and also mentions that the steering column assy needs to be removed.

I have trawled the net for a while now, and can't find much about removing the instrument panel so I am hoping I can get some advice from you kind peeps. Do I really need to remove the steering column assy or is there a better way to get to the bulb?

Cheers!

Rob

Just above the steering wheel in where the speedo is a the top on the under side are 2 screws undo them and yank it towards you then unscrew the cluster

Cheers for that! I had found those screws, and thought there had to be more to undo somewhere.

Well that makes things a bit easier in the morning, I just hope it is simply the bulb that needs changing.

Has the light ever worked i wouldnt go playing around to much on the air bag system if you dont no what your doing it may/will hurt

I plan to simply check the bulb, if that's not it, it'll be going into a garage, as its MOT is due this month anyway.

It wont fail on it trust me im an mot tester

That's interesting, I was led to believe by my garage that the new regs would mean it would fail.

It will do soon but its not in yet and there is no where to fail it on the computer

Ah right, that makes sense. Thanks for that.

How long have you had the jimny ?
Previous owner might have unpluged control unit under center consol in front of gear lever. Easy to check.

Had it since 2009, but honestly couldn't tell you when the light stopped coming on, how bad is that?!

Worth a check though, cheers!

markyp2000 wrote: Has the light ever worked i wouldnt go playing around to much on the air bag system if you dont no what your doing it may/will hurt

Markyp dont suppose someone has unplugged the module like you told me to do that killed the light a well i have my 2yr old lad up front and wouldnt want him getting hit by an air bag just wondered if someone may have done the same