Seat Belt/air Bag Warning Light

[littleweed]

Hello all. My seat belt tension/air bag warning light (NOT the seat belt light that comes on when you haven't belted up) suddenly came on last night. I'm taking it in to be looked at next week, but just wondered whether anyone else had had this happen and what the cause might be.

[acetip]

Hello all. My seat belt tension/air bag warning light suddenly came on last night. I'm taking it in to be looked at next week, but just wondered whether anyone else had had this happen and what the cause might be.

did you have anthinng laying on your front passenger seat that the sensors mistook for a passenger in the seat,without the seat belt on.

[littleweed]

No, but I did manage to squeeze both my parents in yesterday (!) and I wondered whether using the seatbelts may have had an effect. I played around with the belts when the light came on though, but it hasn't done anything.

[atkiman]

mine goes off when my border terriers on the passenger seat, if she sits still its ok, but when she stands up to gawp out the window, off it goes.

[littleweed]

The light suddenly went off after about two days, and hasn't reappeared since, so let's hope it's OK now. Toyota said they still thought it best if I brought it in as the fault code would be recorded. But when they checked, there was no code, so there was nothing they could do. The guy suggested that sometimes it happens if a wire gets pulled (I think this might be under the seats). He also said that they had someone else who kept coming in with the same problem who 'didn't listen' to them, so it kept recurring. Hmmm...

[littleweed]

mine goes off when my border terriers on the passenger seat, if she sits still its ok, but when she stands up to gawp out the window, off it goes.

Thanks, but this isn't the same light I don't think. It's not the one that comes on when you or a passenger hasn't belted up - it's the air bag/belt tensioner hazard light.