Light came on the other day. Checked everything associated with it. No idea what it could be.
The air bag light should blink a pattern like 3-6 or 3-7 times. This indicates either the driver's side or passenger side seat. If this is what you're seeing, there is a yellow electrical plug on the bottom, center rear of the seat. It is actually plugged into a resistor. This plug sometimes gets pulled or kicked by rear seat passengers or by junk on the floor. Try pulling, pushing wiggling these plugs and see if the light goes off. I've had this happen several times.
I presume this plug was for side air bags, but I've never seen an Explorer with this option. Maybe the Limited's... ?
I don't have a picture of the plug handy. It's not very large and it appears to have a matching yellow cap on it's end. This cap is the required resistor to keep the air bag light off. If your seats have been changed, whoever replaced them may have shoved the wire and plug under the carpet, as it emanates from a small slit in the carpeting. Hopefully they didn't clip the wire off or you'll need to find replacements at the salvage yard and solder them in.
What code is the air bag light flashing?
The yellow plastic plug has a molded hook on the end that allows it to snap onto the metal bar that runs across the rear bottom of the seats.
Here's a link with more info:
http://www.justanswer.com/ford/0uu15-2000-ford-explorer-code-36-air-bag-light-fix.html
I found this picture of the resistor on eBay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-OEM-AIR...ash=item35e37ff40b:g:x8IAAOSwrklVTT39&vxp=mtr
Here's a picture of the wire with the resistor attached. Apparently this guy had a bad OE resistor and wired in one for Radio Shack.
Hmmm strange ,on my 99 explorer the plug to the latch is black with 2 black wires and flat , am I looking at the same thing ? the code I get is 36
Thank you koda2000
Code 36 is driver's side seat IIRC. The wires on the seat belt latch have nothing to do with the air bag or the air bag light. The 2 black wires on the latch are for the seat belt reminder light. Did you feel around under the carpet for the side air bag wire? Most Ex's did not have side air bags, but they all had the wire for it, as it was unused the resistor was necessary to fool the air bag system into not turning on the air bag light.