passenger air bag light weight requirement?

79.3 lbs is the cutoff. Has she tried holding her purse in her lap? Being seated cross-legged before you start the car?

 

Does this suggest aproblem with the sensor? a bag of shopping will activate my sensor.

 

And that's 79.3 lbs on the seat, if that's not obvious. If she's putting 20 lbs of weight on her feet, that'd do it. Also, it looks like there's an allowable uncertainty of ±7 lbs or so - so the cutoff is really more like 72-86 lbs.

 

I'm guessing the American version is less sensitive than the Euro/Japanese versions as mine too will activate with something like a small bag of shopping or even a laptop bag.

 

Out of curiosity, do you have a source for this # as well as any additional criteria like the distribution of the weight? Do you know of some FMVSS that specifies the requirement succinctly?

(I only ask because I recall trying to look into this a year or two ago since my mom claims that sometimes in her 07 NAH, when certain people sit in the passenger seat, the passenger airbag deactivated light comes on.)

 

It's in the service manual.

To check calibration, the zero point calls for putting steel weights in the front seat. I used a 5 gallon bucket of hydraulic fluid on a friend's '07 a few months ago.

 

Don't put anything under the seat. A purse or other object can lift the seat, preventing the weight sensor from functioning.

Tom

 

The gen 3 air bag light directly in the psgr line of sight. Bad design for night driving. Had my window tinter put limo tint over it.