š¾šššš šæšššIt's that time of year again.
Echo DotIsnāt it great how cars just have like random lights that come on whose design is so ambiguous that thereās no possible chance you could work out what theyāre trying to indicate.
My car occasionally displays a blue tick, what the hell is that supposed to mean? It only comes up maybe once every 4 or 5 months so itās really hard to work out a pattern.
No you dont get it, its bad design if you have to read. Also why are there 3847436189347 different lamps that indicate something now? Thats bad design. Oh why do i not know what the single error lamp means and what exactly is broken?bad designā¦
All because people dont want to rtfm.
My ten ear old Subaru has a small screen that says what the light is. Unfortunately that doesnāt always help: recently the āspend $1,400ā light came on but the screen claimed it was āpassenger airbag sensorā
I HATE that sensor. It was the arse weight one, right?
Iāve had it programmed out of a car once. Just couldnāt use a child seat in the front pass. Seat afterwards. Big deal.
Yes. I was lucky that the car had an outstanding recall on the wiring so replacing that was free and the airbag has a long warranty so replacing that was free, but it wasnāt enough. And apparently the sensor is not replaceable so they had to replace the seat base and rebuild the seat. I suppose it could have been much more expensive but this is excessive.
I donāt understand why they couldnāt program the sensor out - let the airbag always deploy in case of accident. The reasoning behind it is stupid anyway. Theyāre afraid some kid might be in the front seat and be injured by it, yet the weight of a car seat by itself is almost enough so what point is there?
I needed to get this fixed to pass my stateās inspection, but what made it more painful is that apparently that requirement is dropped after ten years. It would have been cheaper to just pay any tickets until December when I could magically pass again. Realistically though, I would not want to be the guy saying āI saved some money by not fixing thatā in case an airbag was ever needed
And apparently the sensor is not replaceable so they had to replace the seat base and rebuild the seat.
One of my favourite examples of planned obsolescence in cars - they build a high failure rate part into an expensive part that would otherwise last longer.
I donāt understand why they couldnāt program the sensor out - let the airbag always deploy in case of accident.
Itās not even possible in all cars. I had it done in my W211 Mercedes and the guy said newer models donāt even have an option, the sensor just is there and thatās it, the car always expects it. I donāt know how it is for Subaru. But yes, they donāt want to take any liability.
I needed to get this fixed to pass my stateās inspection, but what made it more painful is that apparently that requirement is dropped after ten years. It would have been cheaper to just pay any tickets until December when I could magically pass again
Ah yeah, my car at the time was like 16 or 17 years old, but unfortunately you canāt have an SRS light up even on a 60 year old car. Not that any CURRENT 60 year old cars have the system, but essentially if the system is present, it must work. No lights allowed on any safety-critical systemsā¦