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As a follow up:I spoke with my local dealer and they confirmed that in the R56's the seat sensor is coded to the vehicle. So, if I was to buy a...
Yep I measure the resistance before connecting it. I bought the tightest tolerance resistor that I could, in a 2.2 it was a 5%. In practice, I had...
Gotcha... I missed the part about disabling the seatbelt sensor as a way of bypassing the seat sensor. One, from what I have learned thus far, I...
More than anything... the car would drive you crazy with the incessant dinging because it doesn't think the passenger is using their seatbelt....
The '07+ Mini's also have a seat position sensor for the drivers seat. This activates one of two charges for presumably the drivers front airbag....
If I am looking at this correctly: RealOEM.com BMW R56 Cooper S Seat, front, seat frame it should be part number 9. That is what I called the...
What about just ordering the seat sensor from your local dealer? I called them with the part number and they said it was something like $160....
Got it working tonight!!!! If you look carefully at the plug on the R56 it looks kinda like a "Y" with the crook of the Y splitting, the top...
Ryan, that makes sense about the bridge. I will try measuring the resistance with the harness plugged in.
I will definitely take you up on this. I will PM you my cell.
I'm afraid that it just might be an article about what not to do... in any case I will definitely put something together. I have found that R56...
I will check again, but I definitely measured 0 ohms in both seats. Both the drivers seat and the passenger seat have 3 connectors. 1. Airbag 2....
What did you do about the stock seat belt mount? The Brey Krause mounts that I have don't have any, I was just going to drill a hole in it for the...
Some of those cars look like R53's.... My car is an R56. The pictures that I have seen of the R53's, they have 3 separate plugs. The R56 has one...
I have a set of Sparco Evo 2 Plus seats with the Brey Krause brackets that I am about to install in my Mini. I have looked at tons of threads...
I would say that I took off more like a 1/4", and I used a sanding disc, you can barely tell it was ever there. In any case it is just a cosmetic...
For the price of that plus installation, you can have a custom 4 point roll bar put in.
I have traveled heavily down the kill the brake pad road. My best advice is to just suck it up and buy the BDM. You will save yourself money in...
I pointed my RSS reader to the main address: http://motoringalliance.com, and it is working fine.
+1 for the 40 psi hot tire pressure. I have run Dunlop Direzza Star specs, Falken Azenis and Hankook RS2's and the 40 psi has generally served me...