xmuzzyx

2011 5.0 Mustang GT


I was about to put in my new Corbeau seats today. When I pulled out my driver seat, I noticed all of the electrical going through the seat...

Anyways,

Do I need to worry about the electrical that it hooked up under my seat, I believe it is a seatbelt sensor, airbag sensor for the seat, and something else.

I am installing Corbeau Forza II racing seats, have the seats, brackets and I also have the Corbeau 3pt. retracable harness...

I am wondering what is needed to be done with the electrical. I am also installing a 8 point cage this next weekend.

Josh

Email: xmuzzyx@live.com

wcgman

I cant help with your ?, but you have any pics of the seats? Love to see em!

defiance

That plug under the seat is for power, heating, seat belt sensor and an airbag sensor. You should be fine installing the new seats and leaving the electrical harness unplugged but will probably have to take a trip to the dealership to get the error codes disabled.

MustangFirstCar

You will have error lights on your dash, but don't worry about them. If they bother you, take it to a dealer to disable them, or give Bama a ring. They might be able to include that in a tune.

oldlugs

There is a simple fix:

SIMPLE FIX

Corbeau may offer something similar.

2005Redfire6

Looking forward to seeing the new seats installed but I doubt the dealership will disable an airbag light, I actually think its illegal for them to do so...

MustangFirstCar

I don't know what your local dealerships are like, but ours are a little more lenient.

wcgman

It's not illegal to disable an airbag light. It is illegal to disable an air bag. Justice is supposed to be blind and I think that as long as you communicated to anyone riding in your vehicle that there is no airbag in the seats who'd care. If I were dealership management, I'd be worried about the legal implications and wouldnt disable the warning. Its not the fear of someone not knowing they arent protected by a seat airbag, it's the fear of a slimy lawyer sueing over it.

defiance

Although that is very true, I wonder if the dealership will even mind in OP's case, after all, they would be disabling the code for airbags that are optional as not all models came with airbags in the seats.

tx_zstang

There's 3 sensor 'issues' on the driver side.

The smaller 2-wire yellow connector is for the side airbag. If your car does not have side ait bags, there will be a little jumper terminator plugged into it.rIf your can has side airbags, you can get a little 'terminator plug' that bypasses the circuit and keeps the air bag sensing happy and prevents a code from being thrown. Ford is the best place to get those, although I was tempted to try a 5-ohm (4.7 ohm) resistor to use a a jumper to see if its close enough to the same value.

Seat belt connection sensor, on the seat belt female buckle by the console. You can 'short' the 2 wires to the seat belt buckle to simulate that the seat belt is always connected.

The 3rd is a seat position sensor, this is mounted on the stock seat rail near the front on the console side. You can remove it and wire it into the wiring and leave it under the seat.

To make it easier, you could remove the wiring from the stock seat and plug it into the connector, and plug in the seat position sensor and jumper the seat belt buckle connector.

All of these are just suggestions and do at your own risk. There's many threads about this all over the place, and the passenger side system is much more of a difficult PITA.