[cooljess76]

Hmm, my vader swap went without a hitch. They had the older style seat belt receptacles, so I swapped the ones off of my sport seats onto them. I disconnected BOTH positive and negative cables from the battery prior to the swap and hooked them back up after everything was back together. No airbag light. It lights up for the first 4 or 5 seconds when I start the car, which is normal. Then when Bobbak installed my sport seats into his car, he had to install his older style receptacles onto them. He only disconnected the negative battery cable IIRC and sure enough, when he started the car, the airbag light came on.

note, the front seat belt receptacles are armed with an Automatic Locking Tensioner. This device retracts the recepticle about 2 inches in the event of an accident. 318ti's built up to 03/97 use a mechanical auto-locking mechanism(part#'s 72118167711 left and 72118167712 right) while models built after 03/97 use a pyrotechnic auto-locking mechanism (part#'s 72118221013 left and 72118221014 right).