This is a lil confusing to me.

Normally, when I drive by myself, there's NO light shown. But when I have a passenger, the Light is lit. At first, I thought it means the air bag is functional until my passenger pointed out to me that it says "OFF".

Is this how it's supposed to be or there's something wrong with the sensor?

Thanks a lot

 

There may be a problem with the seat sensor.
It should stay off with infants or child seat.

 

huh? I'm not really following this.

Like I said, when there's NO passenger, there's NO light.

When there's passenger, the Light comes ON. But it says "OFF". So that's why I'm confused.

 

check to see if its been recalled, I know a bunch of them have... Ill see if I can find the link.

 

Yes, the air bag sensors were recalled for 2007's. You should've received a letter from Nissan about it. Mine does it occasionally with passenger or no passenger. I never went to the dealership to get it fixed yet.

 

thanks guys,

I guess it's time to hit up the dealership then

 

my 2008 has just started doing the same thing, it only comes on when there is a passenger in the seat. weird....

 

When the light is off, so is the airbag. Crash with just you in the car, only your airbag goes off. When someone 90lbs (approx) or less is sitting there, the light should come on and say "off" as the car knows someone is in the seat, but still shouldn't deploy the airbag as they are most likely too small to have the bag be helpful. When the light is on and the "off" is not lit, someone is in the seat and is heavy enough for the car to deploy the passenger airbag. This is the only situation that the passenger airbag will deploy.

 

My 08 does this as well sometimes. I'll have to get it checked out sometime.

 

Interesting. I have yet to see the light come on but without the "OFF". My girl is very small ~90lbs, so every time she sits on it, the "OFF" light comes on.

Usually, that's the only thing being lit.