This is actually more common on vehicles than you may think. The ones that do not have an ON/OFF switch have some type of sensor built into the seat that senses when an adult is riding and turn themselves on automatically.

I have it [switch] on my GMC truck and leave the passenger air bag switched off at all times B/C I'm the only one that drives it to work and back.

But like someone stated earleir, I think their purpose is to switch it off when young ones and/or toddlers are riding shotgun. Great idea!

 

thats the XL's air bag switch ..

no fansy smansy weight sensing seat sensors for those XL guys

 

I like the idea of a manual override to turn off the passenger side airbag. I have experienced over the past two years that the seat sensor is intermittent and i can only image during the time of a crash when a child may put additional pressure in the seat generating a false reading (weight wise) allowing the deployment of the airbag.

Ox

 

i couldnt imagen the computer turning on the air bag in the event of a crash..
remember your computer can sense an impact and how severe it is..

but then again im only grabing at straws... check your manual there should be more info in there about the system

 

my 03 has passenger air bag, no weight sensor, and no deactivation. The off on switch was kinda hit and miss for the 03 xlts.
-Patrick

 

I have the switch in the same place, and it is a passanger side airbag on/off switch. I also have the weight sensors that turns the airbag off automatically. I thought the airbag was broken a few days after I bought the truck, haveing everthing on the seat for work it would turn off and evertime I attempted to take it to the dealer it was working, eventually I figured it out.

 

All I have is the weight sensor in the seat on my '05. I have pull out cup holders and an ashtray in that circled area.

 

My XL Regular Cab does have the seat sensor and the deactivation switch. I've had my parents dog in a pet carrier, sitting on the seat and the airbag deactivated automatically.

 

Yea, I have only seen that switch on certain regular cab trucks. I don't know what dictates whether one regular cab truck gets the switch and another one does not? Maybe it is based on the trim package that you buy?

 

My wife weighs only about 100 lbs and every time she farts, the air bag deactvates.

 

My air bag light flashes on and off the entire time my gf sits in the pass seat too.

 

You guys need fatter women!

Grim

 

You trying to say your gf farts a lot?

 

THat could get annoying.

 

Naw she would be ridin in the very back if that was the case