Pothole + civic = airbag light

[Nibsirb]

Def not the best of nights tonight.....while doing a u-turn tonight at 2am my passenger front tire hit a HUGE pothole on the side of the road and engaged the airbag light. Thankfully the airbags didn't deploy but now I'm having to go to the dealer to hopefully get the comp scanned and rid the light. The pothole was big/deep enough that it scrapped my damn bumper pretty decently. Too dark for pix but I'll see what i can get in the morning. Also ripped off one of the plastic air deflectors on the underside of the bumper in front of the tire from the Christmas trees. And unsnapped part of the front bumper (snapped back into place though)F M L.....service appt @ 0730 today

 

[webby]

Sorry man. Keep us posted on what the dealer says. Another user had his side airbag deploy from hitting a huge pothole.

 

[Nomar06]

I swear......Charleston has some of the worse streets for such a small city area.

You would think all the tourism money could help pave the damn roads!

 

[Monk]

Sorry for your incident.
It'd be nice if our cars came with better peripheral lighting........ It's better on high than it is on low beam, but still not very good.

 

[Nibsirb]

 

[Nibsirb]

So after going to the STEALERship and hooking the car up to the diagnostic reader (and $58 later), I've gotta screwed up Rt Front Impact Sensor. The part itself only cost about $40-$45....but after labor and what not they quoted me at $140!!! It's literally a quick disconnect wire, unbolt the sensor, and reverse the steps kinda job, but because they have to remove the bumper they estimate about an hour to hour and a half job. SCREW THAT! Think I'll buy the part and do the job myself....besides, I'm gonna take the bumper off when i do the WRX CS lip mod anyways. Guess I'll be purchasing the lip off Ebay sooner than I really wanted to though....

 

[webby]

Removing the bumper is like a 5-10 min job for them at best. If you've done it a few times it can be removed pretty quick.

http://9thcivic.com/forum/threads/forum-rewards-pricing.2392/

Get a price from Paul at CHH on the part.

 

[Nibsirb]

I haven't removed the bumper yet, but I know it's not that difficult. Just registered w/ CHH and sent them a message...Thanks webby!

 

[Scuderi]

Sorry for your incident.
It'd be nice if our cars came with better peripheral lighting........ It's better on high than it is on low beam, but still not very good.

You can set the fog lights to automatically go on with the low beams. That's how I have them. Helps a bit.

 

[Monk]

You can set the fog lights to automatically go on with the low beams. That's how I have them. Helps a bit.

I've had auxiliary lights I installed on a few cars, and will usually wire them as independently operated. Great Idea, and as you said "It helps a bit", so you know we 're looking for more. I'd say an auxiliary light that's made to point to the extreme frt/side would require a totally new hole port. I think IIRC there are some "BIG" $$$$$$ cars out there with this set up, but these cars all seem to have a box look, so cutting a square hole in one of them wouldn't hurt the looks anyway. Since we'll never see it from the factory, it would have to be custom. Another thought is to customize the fog-ports with a holder that could mount them more sideways.

 

[Nibsirb]

You can set the fog lights to automatically go on with the low beams. That's how I have them. Helps a bit.

I'll have to mess around in the settings to set this up. Good call

 

[Scuderi]

It's on the left stick right next to the regular headlight controls

 

[Nibsirb]

I'll have to check on my lunch break.....

 

[tacthecat]

I'll have to mess around in the settings to set this up. Good call

No settings to mess around with, just turn the fog fights on and leave them on (on the '12 Si it's the inside rotary switch on the turn signal stalk). The fogs will be on anytime the low beams are on.

 

[Nibsirb]

Alright so I got the crash sensor swapped out but the airbag light is still on....I was hoping that the computer would read the sensor as being good and clear the light/check airbag system message but doesn't seem that way. FML Here's another $60 I'll have to shell out for a diagnostic reading...

 

[webby]

Alright so I got the crash sensor swapped out but the airbag light is still on....I was hoping that the computer would read the sensor as being good and clear the light/check airbag system message but doesn't seem that way. FML Here's another $60 I'll have to shell out for a diagnostic reading...

I'm not saying this will work, but try disconnecting the battery to the car for like 10 min and then hook it back up. See if the warning is still there.

 

[Nibsirb]

Tried it twice actually. Before I disconnected the sensor I removed the negative side from the battery just to be on the safe side. Then I thought maybe the comp just needed to "relearn" the sensor so I drive it for a few days hoping for a reset....still nothing. Tried disconnecting the battered again for about 15 mins and still nothing. I've got an appointment set up so regardless it should get taken care of

 

[Nibsirb]

Got the warning cleared. The stealer ship wanted $100 just to hook up the diagnostic tool but when I tood them that was "horse ****" and all they were going to do was hook it up and hit a button, they decided only to charge half. Still ridiculous in my opinion but not much else I could do. Either way, problem taken care of

 

[webby]

glad you got it resolved.