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61 messages, Last post on Nov 21, 2009 at 7:57 AM
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Replying to: anderson8 (Aug 24, 2005 8:41 am) when i first picked up my car (2006 hev) and my salesman was showing me some of the dashboard goodies, he pointed out the airbag light for the front passenger side. apparently the seat has a sensor, and if there isn't at least 40lbs of weight on the seat, the airbag is automatically disabled, and the warning light goes on. this is allegedly a cost saving accident feature, assuming if there is only one person in the car (the driver) and they are involved in an accident, the airbags on the passenger side are not unnecessarily inflated. i can see how this would be a pain, if you are involved in a minor fender bender, replacing two sets of airbags instead of just one can be costly. maybe that answers the question...
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Replying to: nimhbug (Oct 05, 2005 7:51 pm) this is allegedly a cost saving accident feature, assuming if there is only one person in the car (the driver) and they are involved in an accident, the airbags on the passenger side are not unnecessarily inflated. i can see how this would be a pain, if you are involved in a minor fender bender, replacing two sets of airbags instead of just one can be costly." I think your salesman was blowing smoke at you, or simply uninformed. When you have a passenger in the right hand seat, does the SRS light go out? |
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Replying to: stevedebi (Oct 06, 2005 11:43 am) |
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Replying to: stevedebi (Oct 06, 2005 11:43 am) If you put something that weighs a few pounds on the passenger seat it'll trip the sensor. If you put a 100+ pound person on the seat, the light will go off. If that person gets out of the vehicle while it's running, the light will turn on for a moment as the sensor notices the change in the weight on the seat, then it will go back out. This is normal behavior. If the light is going on and off without anything on the passenger seat there's a problem with the OCS and it should be checked.
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Replying to: anderson8 (Aug 24, 2005 8:41 am) Next time you hear it try pulling up kind of quickly on the parking brake handle then releasing immediately. Kind of just give it a little jerk (not too hard you don't want to lock up the rear wheels). See if that makes it go away. |
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Replying to: talaria (Jun 28, 2005 5:00 pm) It is interesting that there are so many others with the same exact symptoms. I will post here if he has anything to say after his weekend of testing. If anyone else hears of a diagnosis I would be very interested to know...before invoke the California Lemon Law.
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Replying to: dvh (Oct 09, 2005 9:44 pm) |
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Replying to: stevewa (Oct 06, 2005 11:16 pm) It is actually illegal to put a child under 14 years of age in the front seat here in CA. I should note that according to your explanation, the original post indicates that there is an error in that Escape; the light is not supposed to be lit if the front right seat is empty.
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Replying to: anderson8 (Aug 24, 2005 8:41 am) Did you ever get this fixed? I just read the FEH Owners manual, and that light is not supposed to be lit unless there is a light weight object on the front right seat. If it is coming at any other time, there is a problem with the passenger SRS, and it might not function properly. Here is the URL for the owners manual in PDF. The most current FEH manuals are also located here: http://tinyurl.com/egzox BTW, I passed on buying an FEH, and got a Ford Freestyle instead. But I was tempted, and drove the FEH as a possibility.
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Replying to: talaria (Jun 28, 2005 5:00 pm) We've had brake squeak that was ear piercing in the parking garage at work, they cleaned the rotors - it came back. They turned (or replaced) a rotor - and it went away. We've had a squeak in the rear drivers side - that is not brake related. It sounds a lot like an old styrofoam ice chest squeak. It is louder when you have people in the back seat - and once it starts it just gets louder and louder. It's been in the shop several times for this. some times they hear it - some times they don't. They've lubricated the bushings on the suspension, they've replaced the suspension, they've told us it was the body panels, and they've broken the tabs on the body panels trying to force them into place. The ford dealership seems to have (somewhat) fixed the styrofoam ice chest squeak (we've only slightly heard it since the last trip to the shop) - but now we have a loud rattle coming from the same area. I wonder if they lost a screwdriver in there or something. We're waiting for a ford rep to come to look at it - but we'd just like to get our money back. It drives nicely, we get 32mpg from normal driving with the AC on, and much better when we drive for economy. But the noises have been too unnerving. What is making the squeaks and rattles? How do we know it's safe to drive if they can't figure out what it is? Is there maybe a sharp piece of metal wearing it's way through the gas tank causing the squeak? Maybe it's a brake line rubbing on something? Maybe the rattle is from some safety feature for the hybrid batteries that keeps the high voltage from frying the frame? They haven't been able to figure it out in at least 7 stays in the shop - so who know what it could be? We've had it less than a year, have about 8,000 miles on it - and it's been in the shop for probably more than 60 days total. We've been told that we can't lemon law it because it is driveable. The lemon law covers a vehicle that is considered unsafe. Since they can't tell what's making the squeaks and rattles - can Texas lemon law be invoked because it can't be proven to be safe? I don't want to be sitting in a hospital burn unit, a body cast, or a casket - before someone at ford realizes the annoying sounds were a loud warning of a deadly dangerous situation! |
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