Orange Air Bag Light on Dash

DessyParkerWigWam · Sep 11, 2023

Started up my T6 (2019) and airbag warning light came on and remains on...... Should I be worried? Is there an easy fix? Seems to be long waits to get it into diagnostics and repairs - and I'm about to go away in the van.

Any help from the forum would be greatly appreciated

rod_vw · Sep 11, 2023

Most likely something has been disconnected in the airbag system. That light can only be re-set via the diagnostics even if/when the disconnection or fault has been fixed.
If you know what has happened and reconnected it someone on here with OBD diagnostics kit can re-set it for you. I can with VCDS.

WelshGas · Sep 11, 2023

DessyParkerWigWam said:
Started up my T6 (2019) and airbag warning light came on and remains on...... Should I be worried? Is there an easy fix? Seems to be long waits to get it into diagnostics and repairs - and I'm about to go away in the van.

Any help from the forum would be greatly appreciated

As long as the Warning light is On, I believe all the Airbags are Off.
As said above, the system can only be enabled once the fault is fixed.

andyinluton · Sep 11, 2023

DessyParkerWigWam said:
Started up my T6 (2019) and airbag warning light came on and remains on...... Should I be worried? Is there an easy fix? Seems to be long waits to get it into diagnostics and repairs - and I'm about to go away in the van.

Any help from the forum would be greatly appreciated

Normally caused by the airbag cable being pulled tight when a seat is rotated. As others have said in needs someone to plug in a computer to reset the light once the cable is reconnected.

DessyParkerWigWam · Sep 15, 2023

andyinluton said:
Normally caused by the airbag cable being pulled tight when a seat is rotated. As others have said in needs someone to plug in a computer to reset the light once the cable is reconnected.

Cheers everyone - you were spot on @andyinluton - in rotating the passenger seat the wire had caught on the rubber battery cover and been pulled out - the garage said this is common and the wire is too tight - he left the wire dangling loose rather than clip it back up - which he says should stop it happening in the future ..... £30 for diagnostics and the time for garage man to fix it .... so not end of the world