Installing Clio Sport Leather seats

[richard691]

Just bought a clio sport interior for my dynamique, I know where all the bolts are located under the car but just need to know how to take out my standard seats without the airbags going off as i'm a little worried that they might and the same with installing the new front seats. Can anyone give me any advice on how to turn them off or something?

 

[Bryan]

disconnect the battery for 20 minutes before hand to give you that added assurance

but i've not known one to go off yet, and the 1st time i seen it done was 3 years ago

 

[V1NNY]

Yeah they say 5 mins but to be sure go for longer, its simple job really, 4 bolts under each chair, unplug wire below seats, the airbags should go off, ive done this in my car and it was fine

 

[richard691]

20 minutes before taking the seats out?

 

[Djw John]

Yep due to the seat belt pretensiors and if you have them the seat airbags.

 

[richard691]

so i wont be able to do it with the battery connected?

I wouldnt mind but i dont want my stereo to ask for the code when i connect the battery back up again as i dont have the code.

 

[Middo]

you can request the code from renault for about 20quids in the worst case scenario.

it should be on a card with all your warranty information booklets

 

[V1NNY]

i wouldnt go unpluging things without disconecting the battery

 

[Djw John]

i wouldnt go unpluging things without disconecting the battery

Ditto. I disconnect the battery and waited when i did my seats and when I did my steering wheel. It better to be patient than to have airbag or pretensioner go off!!

 

[richard691]

you can request the code from renault for about 20quids in the worst case scenario.

it should be on a card with all your warranty information booklets

Trouble is that its not the standard stereo, its a after market sony one which I bought second hand and it didnt include the booklet with any codes, it didnt ask for the code when I installed it, so will it ask for it if I disconnect the battery?

 

[Ad]

is it face off??? if it is it wont have a code.

 

[richard691]

no but i dont think i'll need to enter the code will i, if it didnt ask me for it when i installed it?

 

[Martin_172]

if it didnt ask you for one when you installed it then it wont ask you for one now, so your ok

 

[richard691]

ok cheers

 

[spirez]

I see seats and steering wheels taken out and put in at least 20 times a day at work.

Some people disconnect the batteries, some dont. Even so, in the last 3 years i've never seen one go off.

 

[SeanM86]

So for puttin an airbag steering wheel back in would i need to take the battery off for 20mins or more?? also gotta put in my 172 seats with airbags

 

[Djw John]

I would just to be on the safe side, no harm in it anyway.

 

[V1NNY]

better safe than sorry hey

 

[richard691]

true, just dont wanna lose me stereo.

 

[richard691]

Finally going to install them today but need to know whether I use the seat belt plugs from the seats i have bought (from a wrote off clio) or do I take the ones off my old dynamique seats?

 

[M1TCH]

had any of the airbags gone off in the wrote off clio, if so I would change them over because the pre-tensioners may have been deployed too. You will know for sure if you plug the new seat in and the 'serv' light and airbag light show up on the dash.

 

[Rob_Willow]

Let me know how you wire your airbags up Rick as mine are still showing serv light

 

[richard691]

I dont know because I bought them from a breakers yard and didnt think to ask, so how do you take the seat belts off the seats becaues i'll have to take off the ones from the new seats and the ones off my old seats?

 

[Claire]

Let me know how you wire your airbags up Rick as mine are still showing serv light

With this it might be useful to find the connection and give the electrical spray a quick whirl. Always works for me as its a bit of a Clio fault