[KillerByte]

Quote: Originally Posted by Fen (original)

If the light is on it indicates that the system has had a condition that it would not normally expect and hence flagged a fault code to have it checked. I don't believe it is likely that it is disabled in any way as it's a safety system and surely would be designed to attempt to trigger in an accident even if it had a fault that may make it fail to trigger rather than by design completely disable . In other words even with the light on it would be safer for the system to try to operate and possibly partially fail rather than not to attempt to operate at all.

This is incorrect. With the airbag light on, the system is disabled so that it cannot possibly fire at the wrong time - for example, while driving normally.