Airbag light keeps turning on

PATRICE MURRAY

MEMBER
2016 JEEP COMPASS
4 CYL
4WD
AUTOMATIC
56,000 MILES

My airbag light has been on for the last month. I've checked the wiring under both front seats and everything was in tact. I rechecked the wiring again today (1/22/21) and afterwards I got back in the car and starting driving and noticed it was off. It came back on after 15 minutes of driving. About 6 hours later I got back in the car and it was on then after about 20 minutes of driving, it went back off. The light initially came on when my mom was in the passenger seat a month ago. She said she was trying to move the seat up. The light came on the next day and never went off until today. So I'm not if she touched a side sensor or what. Just trying figure out if it's something minor before I spend unnecessary money. Any suggestions would help. Thank you

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KASEKENNY

MECHANIC
18,907 POSTS

Have you checked for what codes are there? When the light is on, you will have a code that will go along with it. Clearly it seems like a wiring issue but we need to find out what system is involved in order to narrow down possible causes. Here is a guide that will help with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnSGfEqrf_w

Once we know what codes are there we can start targeting some search areas. However, I suspect this is a passenger side airbag inflator issue but we need to find that first rather then messing with airbag wiring. There is a chance that you can move some loose wiring and you get an arc and set the airbag off so we really need to know what we are dealing with before we go to much further. Thanks