Spent the afternoon cleaning the s3 and when jumping into the car to turn her around the warning light came on for the passenger airbag. The car was perfectly fine yesterday and the only thing I've done since is pressure wash it. Could this cause a sensor issue and is it worth waiting to see if the code clears itself. The car is a cat n but the first time ive had this fault. Any ideas guys? 

3 hours ago, Nudgermanning said:

Spent the afternoon cleaning the s3 and when jumping into the car to turn her around the warning light came on for the passenger airbag. The car was perfectly fine yesterday and the only thing I've done since is pressure wash it. Could this cause a sensor issue and is it worth waiting to see if the code clears itself. The car is a cat n but the first time ive had this fault. Any ideas guys? 

Hi you probably moved the seats when cleaning and this has thrown up an airbag code,  the only way to cure this is get it plugged in and find out which seat is causing the problem if the fault is current you will have to remove the connector for that seat and clean it with electrical cleaner, but only do that after the car has been standing a good few hours. If its not a current fault just get the light put out, as the software on these VAG cars tends to hang on to codes even when the self test says its now clear.

Steve.

Many thanks for your help Steve. Managed to resolve it by having a fiddle underneath the passenger seat then using obd11 to clear it. Thankfully no unnecessary costs before the mot in January 

1 hour ago, Nudgermanning said:

Many thanks for your help Steve. Managed to resolve it by having a fiddle underneath the passenger seat then using obd11 to clear it. Thankfully no unnecessary costs before the mot in January 

Hi the airbag systems are a bit twitchy on most cars, glad you were able to sort it.

Steve.