Help: S14 SRS AiR Bag Blinking, doesn?t stop.

[TheVinylKingz]

Originally Posted by AKADriver

Before you just scrap the whole airbag system, try reading the error code. Put it into diagnostic mode by doing this slightly different procedure:

1. Open the driver door and leave it open.
2. Turn the ignition switch to the on position but do not start the car.
3. Within 7 seconds, press the "door ajar" switch in door frame 5+ times.
4. After 7 seconds, press the "door ajar" switch one more time.

The SRS light will do one long (3 second) blink, followed by a series of fast (half second) blinks. Count the fast blinks.

2 = bad driver's airbag

7 = bad airbag module

8 = bad passenger's airbag

9 = multiple faults

If the fault is 2 or 8 try just unplugging the indicated bag and cleaning the contacts. If the driver's airbag is the problem it could also be a busted clockspring - does your horn work? If your clockspring is bad... then you are kind of boned and might as well tear it out, it's a 240SX specific part and apparently they are still available but over $1000. Same if the control module is bad and just cleaning the contacts doesn't fix it.

Update: I followed these steps and the light was rest on my first attempt. There where no fast blinks, but long 3 second blinks as indicated above. To ensure the problem was resolved, I turned off the car cracked it back up, drove for a few min around the block, parked it and cranked it up again. SRS light turned on and off as it would normally display on my s14 prior to the SRS light giving me these symptoms leading to my original post.

Thanks for the help everyone!