did you embed the right link?

car: 2004 986

Seats: passenger: factory. Drivers: GT3 with seat belt plugged in

History:

1. significant crash damage in Sept - repaired. No issues since i got the car back
2. I swapped driver's seat a month ago. No light until today

Questions:

1. Does the presence of the light mean it is not working, or simply that i detected a fault - continuous or maybe even *once*
2. Any ideas on common sources of said problem?

The seat belt wire, which certainly *can* cause this, is plugged in and secure. I checked.

Grant

Grant

gee-lenahan-at-gee-mail-dot-com

PST2, PIWIS, or Durametric will tell you specifically what the fault is.

Who hasn't had this fault at one time or another.

There was a TSB out for grounding issues and the belt buckles were commonly replaced (my second Boxster had 4 trips to the dealer before being right .. buckle, buckle, ground, ground right).

And no the airbag light doesn't necessarily not work because of the light, all depends on what the exact fault is.

Grant

gee-lenahan-at-gee-mail-dot-com

If you look at a list of airbag fault codes you can get a sense of what it could be.

I don't know where there is such a list for your MY but this guide has a list for a later year Porsche and I doubt much has changed in this area:

[www.inkilino.es]

(see Page 18)

This guide has diagnostic steps for each of the codes. Very handy.

I see a wide ranging list of some person's personal links. Kinda strange page, too.....

All i use the reader for is to get the codes, then i refer to fuzzy codes or similar apps.

I just got my current reader. It does have manufacturer codes - nearly 2,000 of them. Given the many manufacturers that's nto a lot i ack.

Grant

Grant

gee-lenahan-at-gee-mail-dot-com



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The P-codes (even the manufacturer ones) are readable by any OBD-2 reader. The Airbag codes can only be read by a Porsche-specific reader.

.. i just proved you right. No MIL. No codes. All happy. Except its not :-)

off to durametric land

Grant

Grant

gee-lenahan-at-gee-mail-dot-com

Security and Tiptronic are the codes a generic code reader doesn't help on. Glad I have one for my other cars though.