Issue after swapping standard Recaro to oen Recaro bucket seats

[Ace]

Hi All

Hoping someone here can maybe shed some light on a problem I have with a friends car.

I swapped his oen standard recaro's to OEM bucket seat recaro's.
They didn't have any airbags in them so i disabled those with a resistor ordered through Audi.

However I was still getting a passenger airbag light on dash and center console.
Dealer told me this is related to the seat occupancy switch.
Now the driver side seat had 2 connectors and passenger had 3 connectors(excluding airbag).

However I now found out that these seats come out of a UK car so a RHD which means things are reversed for this LHD car.

Anybody have any idea if this can be fixed?

Thanks

[koolade9]

You'll need to swap an occupancy sensor into the passenger seat, as your buckets probably didn't have one. Once you swap it in (It's a fluid-filled bladder with a sensor), you'll need access to vag-com to 'learn' the sensor to the car as well. There should be a few write-ups on here about how to do the swap.

[Ace]

You'll need to swap an occupancy sensor into the passenger seat, as your buckets probably didn't have one. Once you swap it in (It's a fluid-filled bladder with a sensor), you'll need access to vag-com to 'learn' the sensor to the car as well. There should be a few write-ups on here about how to do the swap.

Any way to see if they have it or not?
All I know is that passenger side(uk driver side) had 3 connectors and driver side(ik passenger side) had only two.

And I assume you need to remove the entire upholstery to do this and pull the wiring.

[koolade9]

Any way to see if they have it or not?
All I know is that passenger side(uk driver side) had 3 connectors and driver side(ik passenger side) had only two.

And I assume you need to remove the entire upholstery to do this and pull the wiring.

I've never seen B7 RS4 buckets that already had the sensor, but I could be wrong. Pulling the cover off the lower section is relatively easy for those seats. I just noticed where you're located, you may not actually have / need the occupancy sensor. First try swapping the belt receivers to account for LHD to RHD.

[Ace]

I've never seen B7 RS4 buckets that already had the sensor, but I could be wrong. Pulling the cover off the lower section is relatively easy for those seats. I just noticed where you're located, you may not actually have / need the occupancy sensor. First try swapping the belt receivers to account for LHD to RHD.

I have no idea. Honestly I didn't know he had ordered them from the UK until he told me after I started to look into the issue.

I'll try swapping then over.
Initially the idea wat to move the ones from the old seats over.
But there was a wire connected to those, which I guess could be the occupancy sensor. So I left the original ones one.
I didn't check how they were wired and if it was at all possible to swap those over.