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Old 08-31-2007, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by trialsindude
Make sure its a 5ohm resistor, or 2 10ohm resistor and wire the 2 10s in parallel. Make sure the resistor is all the way in the YELLOW plug. I did it and it works fine for my car.

Well I tried it with two 10ohm resistors.....if I were to use 5ohm resistor do I need four resistors...
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Old 08-31-2007, 11:11 PM
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We need to email TRD and tell them there is an interest in swapping out the seats. TRD makes a airbag light delete for their cars in japan that run the TRD seats. Be worth it to get them to do it here
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Originally Posted by sciondriver1466
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Make sure its a 5ohm resistor, or 2 10ohm resistor and wire the 2 10s in parallel. Make sure the resistor is all the way in the YELLOW plug. I did it and it works fine for my car.

Well I tried it with two 10ohm resistors.....if I were to use 5ohm resistor do I need four resistors...
1 5ohm resistor per plug. You can use any amount of resistors...but make sure the final value will equal to 5ohms
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Old 09-02-2007, 02:53 PM
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Old 09-02-2007, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by trialsindude
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Make sure its a 5ohm resistor, or 2 10ohm resistor and wire the 2 10s in parallel. Make sure the resistor is all the way in the YELLOW plug. I did it and it works fine for my car.

Well I tried it with two 10ohm resistors.....if I were to use 5ohm resistor do I need four resistors...
1 5ohm resistor per plug. You can use any amount of resistors...but make sure the final value will equal to 5ohms

ahh....I will do that once I can get home and back to my car....thanks man. I feeling a dumbass
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Old 09-03-2007, 04:20 AM
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And its the yellow plug FYI!!!
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Old 09-04-2007, 04:16 PM
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scott.... i might need you to help me out with this since you got yours to work fine. =]
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Old 09-04-2007, 06:17 PM
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hahaah, whenever let me know....
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Old 09-05-2007, 12:05 AM
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Well,

Im screwed because I tired pulling out the passenger senor form them bottom and not its ripped. I tired putting back together and i it didnt work. So I'm fu@ked! Also, 5ohm resistor didn't work because the senor in passagner seat doesnt work.

I tired to make it work but I failed...I'm just going to find way a to seal this sensor from another tC something like that! maybe a new tC or wrecked one. I was also told that even with light the air can still deploy. So I'm not to worried about it.

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reupload pics...pix aint working
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Old 07-16-2008, 04:38 PM
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FI-NA-LY!
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Old 07-16-2008, 07:24 PM
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bump for pics. i gotta get see if this works for the xB2 cause these damn s2000 seats are throwing lights and its getting annoying....
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Old 07-27-2008, 09:01 AM
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does anyone have the pictures saved? looking to get my new seats in next week!
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Old 07-28-2008, 12:04 AM
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05 & 06 are different! 07+ have 4 sensors on the passenger seat! Which year is this for?
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Old 07-28-2008, 05:13 AM
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if anyone has pictures for 06 to install, could you please post?
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Old 08-10-2008, 10:21 PM
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bump for re post of pics, I've got my seats coming in this week and could use the pics as a reference.
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Old 08-12-2008, 03:35 PM
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yea, pics arent workin for me either.
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Old 08-13-2008, 03:56 AM
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i wanna do mine too the airbag light is scaring me...i need airbags for safety...
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Old 09-14-2008, 09:42 AM
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Just another bump requesting you repost the pics. I don't see a yellow plug so I'm wondering if mine may be a different configuration. Thanks for the help.
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Old 09-14-2008, 08:22 PM
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Lol! No need for pics.

2006xtC, if you don't have the seat airbags then you won't have the yellow plugs. You'd only have for the seatbelt, passenger sensors, and the driver seat position sensor. Just take out the passenger occupant sensors and the driver seat position sensor, then re-plug everything back.
I had the seat airbags on my car. So when I changed both seats in mine I just did the resistor bypass. Voila! No srs light.
Again, disconnect your batt first before tinkering w/ the airbags peeps!
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