On my car the seat map connector is all by itself, as shown in your Fig 7 picture, not part of a group of plugs. Maybe it was a LCI change since mine is a 2012 vs your 2008

 

ok let me check again.

 

Can you post page #2 of this diagram? That's the one that shows the seat occupancy sensor.

 

Is this the one you need? I unbolted the seat...

 

Page 2....here ya go:

 

YES! And your colors match mine! Thanks again for going through the trouble. I can't wait to get that Airbag icon off my dash/speedo. A coworker of mine asked why brown/red/white wires change after the connector and we both decided it was to make life interesting in times like this.......lol

 

I still dont see why the actual wire colors on the car match with nothing in this schematic. Or am I reading it wrong? Less important now, for sure, just would've saved some wrenching on your part.

 

woohooooooooooooo!!!!

 

Well it says NON-OE in the description on ALLDATA. I have no idea what that is intended to mean. The OE diagram is this:

 

. Still dont see purple, grey, yellow. Well I guess yellow is there. Also figured out pin 3 is ground .

 

How you gonna fix the connector?

 

Twisting wires together, black tape. The connector is busted. Code cleared, didn't need the seat belt bypass. Motoring on!

 

Living life with wreckless abandon...

 

Ugh, I found I do need the seat belt chime eliminator. I pushed out a pin in the big connector that faces forward under the seat and it has a female connector. The eliminator has wires with male pins on the ends. So do I need to cut off the pins and solder on the female connectors so they fit in the big connector? That is the question. I emailed support but there is a big time difference and language barrier I'd guess as they were not helpful troubleshooting the seat mat connection.

 

I dont understand why joining the wired with electrical tape didnt work.

 

No, that part worked. There are 2 emulators: seat mat, seat belt buckle. The seat mat (twisted wired/electrical tape) part is working thanks to your help. Now I'm working on eliminating the seat belt chime since the car now thinks the passenger seat is always occupied.

 

can you put in a resistor to fool the ECM?

 

I'm guessing the eliminator box has something similar in it, I haven't cracked it open. I just gotta figure out how to install it since the plugs don't match. I'll watch some youtube videos and see what i'm doing wrong

 

so youre saying the ocupancy sensor is broken?

 

the occupancy sensor aka the seat mat indeed is broken. it was throwing the airbag icon on the dash. that started this whole debacle. the saga continues...

 

Ah now I understand. If someone sitting on the seat closes a circuit or increase resistance cant the circuit be easily fooled so the ECM thinks someone is always seated?

 

apparently its more complicated than that. the emulator box has to produce a digital signal to fool the ECM. It has DIP switches on it to toggle between US/EU spec too.

 

i can confirm that i am an idiot. of course the female pins on the vehicle side of the seat connector go to male pins on the seat side which i found after watching youtube. i successfully installed the seat belt buckle bypass. all is well now. here is the damage i did to the vehicle side seat mat connector blindly trying to disconnect it when i should've taken 5 minutes to unbolt the seat instead.

 

The seatbelt buckle bypass solves the occupancy sensor failure?

 

when you fix the occupancy sensor, the seat belt chimes for 30 sec or whatever it is after you start driving. the seat belt emulator fixes that part.