Curious airbag
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Curious airbag
Afternoon all. Im hoping that a Citroen guru will know the answer to my problem. Recently I have been fitting a Turbo boost gauge to my Xantia and fiddling with other little problems when I realised that something was not quite right. To fit the boost gauge the dash had to be lifted foreward and that meant removing the airbag, and thats the problem.
I thought that the Xantia had a airbag as standard across the range from its launch in 1993 - as mine is a 1993 on a L it has a airbag fitted but I was talking to a local bloke who is not a mechanic but is a Citroen man of many years and he informed me that my car should not have a airbag fitted as standard as they only came in on the 1995 M reg cars? I noticed that a lot of the cabling on the steering wheel controls for the radio and the airbag connections are soldered connections has somebody been fiddling with this before? Ive looked a K + L reg cars and they dont have airbags but the M reg cars do. It was registered in October 1993 if annyone knows when the airbags came into production I would be very gratefull. The car is off the road at the moment with no T&T so I can remove the airbag if its not meant to be there.
I thought that the Xantia had a airbag as standard across the range from its launch in 1993 - as mine is a 1993 on a L it has a airbag fitted but I was talking to a local bloke who is not a mechanic but is a Citroen man of many years and he informed me that my car should not have a airbag fitted as standard as they only came in on the 1995 M reg cars? I noticed that a lot of the cabling on the steering wheel controls for the radio and the airbag connections are soldered connections has somebody been fiddling with this before? Ive looked a K + L reg cars and they dont have airbags but the M reg cars do. It was registered in October 1993 if annyone knows when the airbags came into production I would be very gratefull. The car is off the road at the moment with no T&T so I can remove the airbag if its not meant to be there.
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I remember the early Xantias didn't have a standard drivers airbag fitted.
I know PSA Peugeot / Citroen started to fit airbags around August 1994.
Also the early airbag system that PSA used housed the sensor inside the steering wheel, So in theory you just need a 12 volt supply, with 2 wires & the rotary switch to put the airbag on the car.
Now does your car also have the pyrotechnic seatbelt pretensioners fitted?
Have a look at your seatbelt buckles on the front seats, Is it attached on a kind of thick cable or is it on a fixed metal strip?
I know PSA Peugeot / Citroen started to fit airbags around August 1994.
Also the early airbag system that PSA used housed the sensor inside the steering wheel, So in theory you just need a 12 volt supply, with 2 wires & the rotary switch to put the airbag on the car.
Now does your car also have the pyrotechnic seatbelt pretensioners fitted?
Have a look at your seatbelt buckles on the front seats, Is it attached on a kind of thick cable or is it on a fixed metal strip?
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Well, you have the pyrotechnic pretensioner fitted then.
If the warning light is working as it should be then I would personally leave it as it is & keep the SRS system.
You could always ask Citroen if the car left the factory with the SRS system.
SRS could have been an optional extra at time of production, No idea though.
If the warning light is working as it should be then I would personally leave it as it is & keep the SRS system.
You could always ask Citroen if the car left the factory with the SRS system.
SRS could have been an optional extra at time of production, No idea though.
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Obviously your Xantia has been retrofitted with airbag by a previous owner. I'd certainly leave it in as it is an extra protection provided you miss your luck some day ...
The fact that the connections are soldered simply means the person who did this job had in mind the connections should be secure and lasting - so I would not dis-trust this job.
It would be a lot easier - but certainly no better - using a bunch of standard crimp connectors.
The fact that the connections are soldered simply means the person who did this job had in mind the connections should be secure and lasting - so I would not dis-trust this job.
It would be a lot easier - but certainly no better - using a bunch of standard crimp connectors.
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After just looking at the Xantia Euro NCAP crash test result I wouldn't be worrying about running out of luck!AndersDK wrote:Obviously your Xantia has been retrofitted with airbag by a previous owner. I'd certainly leave it in as it is an extra protection provided you miss your luck some day ...
The fact that the connections are soldered simply means the person who did this job had in mind the connections should be secure and lasting - so I would not dis-trust this job.
It would be a lot easier - but certainly no better - using a bunch of standard crimp connectors.
Then again I would shudder to think what a non SRS equipped Xantia would get from Euro NCAP
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