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Originally Posted by Andy_W
I did not. Salesman contacted me back and told me the window regulator was fixed and asked if I wanted to do a test drive. Then he said "The car is good to drive. There is an airbag light on that we are going to fix but other than that car is good". Really?...
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Regarding the airbag light, it is almost certainly a false error
caused by the regulator repair.
When you have the door panel off to repair the regulator, for safety and convenience it is standard practice to disconnect the battery and then unplug and remove the airbag. Then, during the regulator install, there will probably be a need to move the window up/down, so the battery gets reconnected. When the battery is reconnected with the airbag disconnected, it sets the airbag light. That light stays on forever until it is reset with a special tool.
So yes, quite the rookie mistake for a dealer to make, but almost certainly not a real airbag problem, and it would take me about 50 seconds to reset that light on my car with my $20 eBay bought reset tool. I can't imagine it's much harder than that for the professionals.
So it's not like the airbag light was on all the time and they never told you about it. They just messed up and the sales guy may not have understood what I wrote above, which points to a simple reset being needed.
Not trying to defend this dealer, in fact I'd never buy a used car of any kind from a dealer, and I don't even let dealers touch my cars other than for warranty or recall work.