Removing steering wheel with airbag

Novice1 · Postby **Novice1** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:09 pm

The airbag in my NB98 drivers side is not working. Is it legal to replace the steering wheel and remove the airbag and replace it with another steering wheel. I was thinking Isotta?
Cheers Novice1

Postby **mx52nv** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:26 pm

Short answer is yes it would be illegal to remove a factory airbag steering wheel and replace it with a non-airbag steering wheel.
Get a replacement from MX5 Plus would be my advice.

Les

Novice1 · Postby **Novice1** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:22 am

mx52nv wrote:Short answer is yes it would be illegal to remove a factory airbag steering wheel and replace it with a non-airbag steering wheel.
Get a replacement from MX5 Plus would be my advice.

Les

Mazda quoted me $1,100 plus fitting to replace the faulty system.

I will see richard at mx5plus re replacement.

Cheers Novice1

silvermiata · Postby **silvermiata** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:30 am

Novice1

The airbag in my NB98 drivers side is not working. Is it legal to replace the steering wheel and remove the airbag and replace it with another steering wheel. I was thinking Isotta?
Cheers Novice1

Question is, how did you find out your airbag is not working???

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:44 am

Yes, how do you know it does not work?
I doubt if all the components have failed, thus you need to find out which part needs replacing. It is not as simple as just unbolting the pad from the steering wheel.
As said, it is not legal to delete an airbag wheel.

Mr Morlock · Postby **Mr Morlock** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:07 pm

always shop around- it is an expensive job. I suggest you ring Airbags SRS 03 9585 7702 and speak to Din- he may be able to give you some guidance and est of cost at the very least to assist decision making.

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:17 pm

silvermiata wrote:Question is, how did you find out your airbag is not working???

Hopefully not the hard way! Perhaps there's a warning light, fault code or Mazda have a way of diagnosing?

Novice1 · Postby **Novice1** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 6:36 pm

The airbag warning light came on. Many dollars later Mazda diagnosed that a wire had shorted out and the airbag would not go off if in a crash.
Cheers Novice1

davekmoore · Postby **davekmoore** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:00 pm

So did they try un-shorting it?

de Bounce · Postby **de Bounce** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:05 pm

I would consider a second opinion

For my 03 Nissan Pulsar
Nissan stated the airbag light was on because of low voltage.
Cost $80 for the diagnostic and reset :shock:

Replaced the battery as it was getting old
Cost $140

Airbag light came on again :twisted:

Surfed the web to find how to reset the airbag system and also found the diagnostic codes.
Code identified a problem with the passenger airbag

Turned out it was a dirty connection on the passenger side.

Thanks Nissan

Novice1 · Postby **Novice1** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 8:31 pm

de Bounce wrote:I would consider a second opinion

For my 03 Nissan Pulsar
Nissan stated the airbag light was on because of low voltage.
Cost $80 for the diagnostic and reset

Replaced the battery as it was getting old
Cost $140

Airbag light came on again
Surfed the web to find how to reset the airbag system and also found the diagnostic codes.
Code identified a problem with the passenger airbag

Thanks for that I will seek a 2nd opinion .
Cheers Novice1

Turned out it was a dirty connection on the passenger side.

Thanks Nissan