Hello all

Just a quick question, I am trying to find out if my Truck has Passenger and Driver Side Air Bags and am hoping someone can tell me if it would from the model and the VIN.

I want to fit a child seat to the truck and need to know if my vehicle has air bags .

I have been told that apparently they can be deactivated if I do have them.

The Truck is an Australian 2005 F250 XL single cab chassis with the 7.3.

The VIN number starts with 9BFJF21F95B.

There are no indications on the dash or steering wheel that air bags are present.

I am guessing that the truck does not have air bags but due to the reason for wanting to know I must be 100 percent sure.

 

In the states I it's equipped with air bags it will be clearly indicated on the vin plate that you see through the wind screen on the front edge of the dash, also the steering wheel will have SRS (supplemal restraint system) imprinted on it, if passenger side is present the SRS will be imprinted into the dash. You can also check under the dash for the air bag control module it will have all sorts of warning do not cut or alter labels on it's wiring and it will have only blue or yellow wiring in separate harnesses coming off it.
Jim & fat Monty

 

Jim is correct, the dash will be imprinted with "airbag" if you have one on the passenger side.

The Pass side sun visor will also have a warning lable.

 

Post a photo of your steering wheel and passenger dash. All SDs had airbags in the US by government mandate, but if that is not the law in Australia, you may not have them. The panels on the steering wheel and passenger side are required to indicate 'SRS' or 'AIRBAG' if they have them. This is true in all countries. Also, being you have a regular cab, if you did have airbags, you would also have a passenger airbag deactivation switch on the dash to the right, or in your case to the left, of the radio.

 

This is an American thing and not necessarily true of airbag equipped vehicles in the rest of the world. The air bag warning on the visor in Canada actually talks about how to use the seat belts properly with airbags, whereas all US cars talk about is airbag usage with babies and car seats. Another point that the US government concentrates to much on one thing while sacrificing something else.

 

Good point!

 

Thanks for the replies here is a couple of photos

 

Hey I think something is wrong with your camera M8! Every things on the wrong side of the truck!........
Jim & fat Monty

 

if it a single cab i should have switch to turn if off. i dont see one but the looks like the right plate for an airbag.

 

There are no airbags in that truck. - AND NO GLOVE BOX! WTF? And no cup holders. They mean basic over there don't they?

 

Ok I have been to see our local Ford dealer and he was able to look up my VIN and it came up that it has no Airbags.We kind of worked that out already but just had to be 100 percent sure.
Thanks all for your replies.
As you said JC my truck is very basic,which I kind of like, but a glovebox certainly would be a plus.
Dont know whether you noticed but because we are Downunder the steering wheel is on upside down.

 

I like basic as well. I do not understand how you guys shift with your left hand. I am right handed, as is most of the world's population, so shifting with the right makes sense, but with the left? Plus, what's even more is that the pedals are in the same configuration, as are the gear locations, so the lower gears are away from the driver.

 

Is there a brake servo under the dash in place oh the glove box? As I have noticed the master cylinders are still located on the left hand side of export (converted ) vehicles!
Jim & fat Monty

 

I am not sure about the brake servo but our trucks have a few differences to the one's in the US.
One I found interesting was the fact that they have two identical steering boxes on the inside of both chassis rails.