I had to pull my passenger seat for my sound system install, and in so doing disconnected the airbag plug. Now I've got the incessant blinking warning light on the dash. Is there a secret way anybody might know of to reset the light, short of going to the dealer and paying one hour's labor for them to plug in their "Consult" for 5 seconds???!!!
TIA,
Greg

 

I don't know how to reset it but in the future you should disconnect the battery before you disconnect air bags

 

TIM,
Thanks, I'll do that if I take the seats out again.
Anybody else have any ideas?
Greg

 

Have you tried disconnecting the battery to reset the ecu? Maybe that will work.

--Josh

 

Josh,
My car stereo installer tried that. Actually, he tried several combinations of neg/pos battery lead disconnect/connects, for different amounts of time. Apparently he's has some success doing this with other cars, mainly GM/Ford.

I really think I may be stuck having to go to the dealer for help. Maybe I'll act dumb, and say that the car was like this when I bought it (10 days ago), and maybe they'll reset it under warranty....

Anybody else have any ideas?....

 

Yea just tell them that it just came on for no apparent reason.

--Josh

 

Real easy.

Insert key turn to on position for 7 seconds. At 7th second, airbag light will start to blink, turn to off immediately within 1 second. Wait 10 seconds and repeat. Repeat a total of 4 times.

 

Steve,
You're an absolute genius! I tried it and it worked! Where did you get this trick? Are you somehow affiliated with Nissan?
Any other tricks you'd like to share with us?......
Thanks a million,
Greg

 

LOL i thought he was yankin your chain, I'm glad it worked. Turn key count to 7 hop on one leg turn around twice to your left and shut the key off in 5 seconds....

 

Yeah, I thought it might be a joke too. Glad it wasn't........!
Greg

 

oh ****..it really works!!...timing is everything....man this really save me $60....

thx for the note!!!

 

Lifesaver thread. Awesome.

 

This thread saved me the money of taking it to the dealership. THANKS.

 

Thanks Steve,
You saved me trip to dealer and a few bucks, I guess i'll mail it to you instead

It's always good to use the search.

 

Wow steve!! Amazing. I thought you were messing with him. Sounded like that old Contra code - up, up ,down ,down, left, right ,left, right, a,b ,select, start. BEN

edit- So steve, what light do you have to wait to blink to reset the ECU to stop tire feathering?

 

u guys...theres a search button...he didn't figure it out himself

 

I would think it might be in the service manual that can be found on the Internet.

 

WTF....sounds more like a joke...is this legit? lol.

 

It's legit I was pissed this morning when I started the car up and the ****ing air bag light start flashing. did a search on 'Airbag' , found this thread, followed it step by step, and BAM! just like that it was gone.

 

My Z is at the dealer today for a flashing air bag light. The car is all stock- the light came on due to nothing I did. Its good to see that there is any easy way to get the light to stop blinking, but more importantly I want to be sure that there really is nothing wrong with the air bags or seat belt tensioner... Others using this trick should be careful if the light came on and you're not sure why...

Ethan