seat belt pre tensioners? PICS **

[Jimmy-Boy]

ok the orange wire from the vts seeat will not fit into my previous furio wire (one brown other orange) Are they needed? important? anything i can do ? :panic:

[Jimmy-Boy]

anyone ? if i strip it back there are two wires one is red and black i think the other grey and bluey which could i bond to which if i works?

[deks36]

just a thought would it not be possible to take the pre tensioners and their wiring of you old seats and fit to new ones

[Jimmy-Boy]

sold em all for £2 lol

[DAN-VTS]

Has the vts seats got side airbags? If so you wont need the wire that comes with the seat

I cant see why the pretensioner connector dont fit, they are all the same

[Jimmy-Boy]

umm the vts in non air bagged

and there is a brown flat one and it don't clip into the orange one.

[Jimmy-Boy]

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[DAN-VTS]

I think your getting a bit mixed up maybe?

The connector under the seat is brown right? And one single orange

The orange goes into the seat belt pretensioner (where you plug your seat belt into)
The brown connector plugs into the other brown connector under the seat

It sounds like your are trying to plug the orange into the brown which is wrong

[Jimmy-Boy]

I think your getting a bit mixed up maybe?

The connector under the seat is brown right? And one single orange

The orange goes into the seat belt pretensioner (where you plug your seat belt into)
The brown connector plugs into the other brown connector under the seat

It sounds like your are trying to plug the orange into the brown which is wrong

lol im pretty confused will have a look later with your theory behind it :y:

[DAN-VTS]

If you still cant figure it out take some pics and i will try to point out where your going wrong :y:

[Jimmy-Boy]

well theres an orange one under seat, in my car there is a brown one on the floor and an orange one but thats way small..the connectors are 100% different!!! will get pic tomorow.

[Jimmy-Boy]

As you can see there is an orange one under my seat, and a brown one of the floor.

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x291/liquidcooljim/P1010380.jpg

Here is a spare clip and wire from my furio seats (again one brown one orange but the orange does not fit into the other orange).

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x291/liquidcooljim/P1010381.jpg

[Jimmy-Boy]

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[Jimmy-Boy]

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[Predator_R32]

the pre tensioners arent just for the side airbags

there there for the drivers airbag too and the passenger if you have a vts or had it as an optional extra

[Jimmy-Boy]

oh right, so what excatly do i need to put in then? im so confused... :( non of the wires go into each other, but the one from the floor i presume has to go into something on the seat :geek:

[Jimmy-Boy]

:bump: need to know...

[LSOfreak]

i had the same problem with my gti non airbagged seats . the connecters wouldnt fit each other, i jus swapped the connecters with the one of the original mk1 vtr seats. the orange wire should have a grey and pink wire i think. i soldered the wires together to make sure they wouldnt come apart

[steviet]

you can just cut the plug off them and join them together. there`s no voltage in these wires its just a resistance. so it doesn`t even matter which wire goes to what. or if you prefer you can take the pretensioner off the old seats and fit to the new ones and it will just plug in.

[Jimmy-Boy]

Thank you very much you two you are stars!!!!! so i can just strip the wires solder them together and place them in a two way connector thing :y:

Brilliant and your 100% sure it doesn't matter which goes into which?

Will do this and make a guide :P

[steviet]

assuming the seats didn`t come out of a crashed car then the pretensioners will be fine. if they did come out of a crashed car then swap the tensioners over. as they won`t be any good. your airbag light will stay on. oh and doesn`t matter which way they go. take the battery off when doing this. so when the seats are connected up, battery back on there`s no faults when started.

ps- i think there is a guide for swapping pretentioners over.

[Jimmy-Boy]

assuming the seats didn`t come out of a crashed car then the pretensioners will be fine. if they did come out of a crashed car then swap the tensioners over. as they won`t be any good. your airbag light will stay on. oh and doesn`t matter which way they go. take the battery off when doing this. so when the seats are connected up, battery back on there`s no faults when started.

ps- i think there is a guide for swapping pretentioners over.

Brilliant thanks mate, will have a bash at the weekend then :D - pretty sure they haven't been it a crash :panic:

[Predator_R32]

iirc you put a resistor in the plug going back on its self

[Jimmy-Boy]

iirc you put a resistor in the plug going back on its self

ok cheers mate :y:

[steviet]

iirc you put a resistor in the plug going back on its self

he won`t need to though as the pre-tensioners are fine on his old seats, and possibly fine on the new seats. so the resistors aren`t needed