Originally Posted by
PaulinhoT
Can I ask, what's the ohm reading on the resistor you used ? as most "other" cars use 3.3ohm 1.25volt (not to be confused with a 3.3k)( I think?)), although as I said my automotive electrical knowledge only extends to fitting stereos, spotlights and associated wiring etc.
Maplins do a range of resistors that aren't expensive, so maybe worth picking up a few with higher values ? and trying them.
Now you're asking Mate
From memory, I got some 3.9 ohm from Maplins and they turned out to be 3.9kohm when I check the colour code, so then I tried some 3.6 from ebay from a guy who makes them with a 3 amp fuse in series to stop them blowing in the event of a voltage, no luck with those, but he makes some 2.somethings for mondeos, so I emailed him asking what he thought (as he suggests that on his ebay itme), and he's ignoring me, soo I bought some 2.2 ohm ones from ebay (just ordinary ones, no fuse), which is where I'm at at the mo. Having read up on it on the SVT forums, two of which I've now joined, it seems that they are not too sure, but a couple of times I came across the mention of the Ford ones they use to test them in the workshop being 2 ohm with a capacitor (0,47 uf), wired in series. So I thought I might try making one up.
Then somewhere else on SVT I saw a thread (bu33ered if I can find it now though
) where a guy swapped out the airbag module so I thought I'd have a crack at that using one from an RS, so I'm waiting for that to arrive. It's only cost me about 8 quid, so it's worth a punt.
Worst comes to the worst, I'll buy two airbags, plug them in and stick them under the seat for the MOT. That's probably going to cost me about 75 quid though so I'll try everything else first.
Pretty sure that they could be turned off in a Ford garage, but I don't have access to one, and my local Ford man is definitely not keen on that sort of thing.
sorry for long drawn out reply
