Hi everyone,

My son has a 2010 1.4 TSI Golf that had the airbag light come on just before it's mot. I had worked on the brakes as his pads were shot on one side due to a sticky caliper and the airbag light came on after that, with hindsight I had slid the seat forward which I think was the trigger for it tbh.

As I didn't have any diagnostics kit (my nephew borrowed a code reader I had and I never saw it again) I spoke to a guy I knew to have a look at it. He had a look and thought it was the yellow plug under the drivers seat carpet flap and cleaned that and reset it and it passed the mot, however shortly after the light came back on.

I took it to another garage nearer to me after the first garage owner was unwell and couldn't look at it. So the second garage checked the wiring, couldn't find anything and reset the light and said try it. I drove away and the light was on within 100 yards so they did the same again and said try it but the light is still coming on.

So, we now have a Foxwell 680 lite for doing some diagnostic stuff (was cheaper than the 2 x trips to the garages!) and has the following code when running the diagnostics tool on the air bag module:

ID B1 00B11 STATUS passive/sporadic Description Driver thorax airbag igniter Short circuit to Ground (GND)

I've had the seat out today to look at the wiring under the seat incase anything was nipped or damaged but all appears visually ok. I can reset the light and it can go 100 yards or a couple of miles before the light comes back on again. I read that there was a wiring repair that VW was doing on a plug under the seat of some Golfs, does that include the 2010 Mk6 Golfs??

I unplugged the yellow airbag plug under the seat and when we did that the fault said the resistance was too high, which I believe is what it should say going by one of the articles on the forum here but please correct me if I'm wrong. In that article it said that the wiring up to the plug was fine if unplugged and said that, the issue would be in the seat itself so this is where I'm looking.

Any info would be much appreciated as I'm very much a novice when it comes to car wiring and all this modules and stuff. I think I'm going to have to get handy with my multimeter on this one so any advice at all to keep me right would be fantastic.

Thanks for your time and hopefully will get some feedback from some of you knowledgeable people....
Al.