Stolen battery, now Airbag light is always on

[quetzaldaewoo]

Hi, all
A couple of week ago, I had some trouble with my 1999 1.4 Lanos.
It all begun when I downed the window on driver's door. The glass went down nicely, but when I tried to rise it nothing happened. OK, that's just bad luck.
I drove home (80 km with window down, in a cold December night), parked the car just in front of a car body repair shop, put a plastic sheet on the door, just in case it could rain, removed some valuable objects from the car, and went to sleep.
Next morning, while reaching (by foot) the shop, I noticed that the plastic sheet was partly shredded. I put an hand into the car (did'nt even tried to open the car), found that door seemed locked, and thought that plastic was sherred by wind. Next, I reported at the shop's owner my trouble with power window. Gave him the keys, indicated him my car and went back home.
Less than 5 minutes later, the shop owner called me saying that the battery was stolen.
Altought this steal would cost 50 (or 80 ?) euro more, I started laughing. An histerical laughing, but did'nt got freak at all.

Next day I took back my Lanos, with a new power window mechanism in drivers door.
Since now, the Airbag signal light is always on. The shop owner said me that it would reset in some minutes of driving, but, since the work was done, I drove nearly 1000 km, always with airbag light on.

So, my question is if there can be a connection between the stole battery (ie: many hours without electrical power, or the thief did a short circuit while removing the battery, or the guys at the car body shop did a bad work) with the always on signal light ?
Using an appropriat ODB analyzer could reset the light ? I mean, NOT switching off the light, I mean making airbag effective ? Any suggestion for an appropriate ODB analizer ?

Thank for your interest.

[Daniel]

This error is possibly linked to battery voltage while starting up. If battery voltage was under 10.6V or above 16.5V it would trigger error code 24 or 23.
I'm afraid that you need the "official" Scantool to remove this error code.
Read section 8B of vehicle's relative service manual.
I don't know if a generic code reader is able to reset airbag light.

Daniel

[ChiPPy]

Could it be that who ever stole your battery, stole your airbags as well? They are worth a small fortune, and fetch a good price on the black market. People steal them all the time and sell them on ebay and other places. Just my thoughts.