I need to know the resistance of the air bag as in the resistance that you would test by the connector.

I just wanted to caution people never to connect a meter accross the leads of an airbag, the tiny voltage from the meter could actually initiate a deployment! It doesn't take much.

I have lit them off with a 9V battery before.

With that being said, I don't remember the resistance the SDM is looking for.
I know it's quite low.
I think it's in the neighborhood of 2-3 ohms but it would take me a while to find out.

the DVM puts out .25v I doubt that'll set off the air bag...

but still... don't mess with it.

it took 2 1ohm resisters to close the loop with to get rid of my air bag codes.

Are you saying that you found out what you needed to know to do what you wanted to do?

yes i got the info i needed. my car was in a wreck and never had new airbags put in so i had service air bag soon light on wich wouldnt let me see any of the info or reset the oil life. to make it think i have air bags you cut the wire and connect it with a 2ohm resistor.

So once you solder a 1 or 2 ohm resistor in place, did you have to do anything else to get all the airbag codes clear? My uncle hit a deer and is trying to get all the codes off but isn't planning on replacing the air bags. He's got a '96 Deville.

How does a 2 ohm resistor protect you from injury in a crash? This whole line of research verges on criminal behavior. It's hard to imagine somebody being this cheap and stupid. This reminds me of the story about the CO of a fighter squadron that got called to the parachute loft so they could show him where somebody had replaced the chute in his seatpack with a folded up GI blanket.

I guess it is more important not to have to stare at that awful warning light than it is to be safe in a crash?
Lunacy... I agree.

Is it stupid to not replace blown airbags? That's debatable... Is it less safe than if you did have them installed? Yes, but seat belts are your primary and most effective safety feature anyway.

In my car, I think I would replace them.

In my uncle's case, he lives in a small farm town with no traffic that is probably 90 minutes to the nearest stealership and we all know you're going to get hosed at those places anyway. Most of his farm/work trucks don't have airbags...the tractors don't have airbags (granted they don't go as fast either) so he's not too worried about it.

So I told him I'd take a look on here and see if I could help him out. I didnt want to start a debate about how much safer a car is if it has airbags...I know it'd be a safer vehicle to ride in.

Is it stupid to not replace blown airbags? That's debatable... Is it less safe than if you did have them installed? Yes, but seat belts are your primary and most effective safety feature anyway.

In my car, I think I would replace them.

In my uncle's case, he lives in a small farm town with no traffic that is probably 90 minutes to the nearest stealership and we all know you're going to get hosed at those places anyway. Most of his farm/work trucks don't have airbags...the tractors don't have airbags (granted they don't go as fast either) so he's not too worried about it.

So I told him I'd take a look on here and see if I could help him out. I didnt want to start a debate about how much safer a car is if it has airbags...I know it'd be a safer vehicle to ride in.
The most dangerous place in the U.S. is a farm and the accidents can be horrendous. Arms get torn off in the silage chopper, kids go through the brush hog, and the farmer winds up under the tractor. Mechanics skills of the farmer are legendary; take it apart with a cutting torch and put it back together with a buzz box welder. This is just more of the same.

Gimme a break...

I'm not sure what your profession is, but I can tell you that as the backbone of the US economy, farmers put in much longer days and work a heck of a lot harder than I do. And not all of them are crazy rednecks with bad teeth who speak southern hick english while tearing apart anything they can get their hands on with a cutting torch. To have a profitable farm these days, you have to be educated in finance and business as well as agriculture. And as for all the "accidents" that happen on all these unsafe farms, I've got more than 20 relatives working the family farm and all of them still have 10 fingers and 10 toes. Maybe they're just the lucky ones...

Anyway...all of this is off topic...