baby seat transponder

[craigbarlow18]

with having little one already and another on way, i woundered if i can get the vx transponder to disble front airbag if i want newborn in front whilst im on my own.??

I have jane twin seat set so dont really want to by the vx baby seat

[Duncan]

The feature has to be installed in the car to be able to use the seat transponder. Were you asking if that can be retro-fitted? I'm not sure if it can and if it could you'd want to be 100% sure it was done correctly!

[craigbarlow18]

ok mate ta, from what i can gather from the sticker on the door piller i only needed the transponder to deactivate it.

Not too much of a problem if i cant get one seperate, just thought it could be clipped to seat belt or something. we all know what its like trying to pass a dummy to a child in the rear without taking eyes off the road, Impossible

[Ste]

Personally, I think VX should have a 'disable by key' feature, instead of by transponder, like a lot of other makes. Wish you luck.

[Duncan]

I agree. On the new Corsa you can disable the passenger airbag with a button on the central dash. I never understood why they didn't do similar, or a key in the side of the dash, system on the Vectra C / Signum.

[craigbarlow18]

yeah see cos i looked at that many audi's before buying the vec i got confused i really thought they had a key in the glove box. gutted when i realised the mistake.

[CooLix]

I too was expecting a method of turning off passanger airback when we were expecting our son.

Was disgusted to find out that your had to "buy" a VX baby seat to disable the front air bag.

To me it stank of VX grabbing more money.

[leonvectrac]

as im a new dad, just to confirm wot am reading above if i wer to put a vauxhall car seat in and plug it in the seat belt restraint it wud disable the air bag???

[Duncan]

Only if the baby seat has the transmitter in it i.e. has to be a Vx car seat and only if your car has the receiver part installed. That last bit you need to be 100% sure of as it wasn't a standard feature on every model/year.

[leonvectrac]

Only if the baby seat has the transmitter in it i.e. has to be a Vx car seat and only if your car has the receiver part installed. That last bit you need to be 100% sure of as it wasn't a standard feature on every model/year.

aww i see now thanks for tht duncan