geof

I'm just putting this down for the record. These past few weeks the "passenger airbag disabled" light came up a few times. Then the car gave me a warning to check the passenger airbag setting or something (can't remember exact words). Since I was taking the car in to fix the cupholder (which broke on delivery), I asked the dealer to look at this.

It turns out that I had a pair of hiking boots on the floor behind the passenger seat, and the passenger seat was backed up to put pressure on the boots. This triggered a sensor in the seat which disabled the airbag (or something like that). Very strange. Anyway, I thought I'd mention this in case someone else has this issue.

Weasel

Had the same issue a few months ago when I placed a bath towel in the rear passenger side footwell. The day before I'd planned to return to the dealership for repair, I figured it out -- just in time to keep me from wasting an afternoon and feeling like an idiot.

500

Shouldn't the psngr airbag be off if no one is sitting there?

geof

Yes, but in my case the PCM was sending me an error message to check the passenger airbag setting, complete with the red exclamation point lighting up in the center instrument dial. The threshold weight is 85 pounds, according to the person at the dealer.

99firehawk

the items put up pressure on the rear sensors -lbs and down on the front sensors +lbs so it knows theres noone in the seat yet something is not right

very common on boxsters/caymans