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I have an 03 gt with side airbags which i totally forgot about, and i swapped out for leather seats with no bags, i took the airbag module from the same car(anyone want it btw), but it was from an 06 and wouldn't plug in. i did save the old seats and bags just in casewould an 03 module with no sidebags plug in? should i ghetto mount the bags under the seat or try to fish them under the leather?or can i program them out through the computer some how?i work at a shop so i do have several computer scanners and diagnostic tools at my disposaljust want to make sure my front bags will function when needed

I wouldn't try to fish the bags under the new leather seats, if they don't go off right or in the corect location/pattern it could be worse than not having them at all.Seems like you would neeed an airbag control module form an 03 that had no side airbags, but that is just a guess. No idea how you'd go flash the original one to a different load or configure it to know you didn't have SABs anymore

update: got an ak5 option module and scanned the dtc no longer showing issues with the side bags but i forgot that i never hooked up the belt and weight sensors and the plugs are of course different 03/04 - 05+... the original seats were promptly disgarded after side bags were harvested all wires and sensors in tow...great... anyone got junk seats or spare wires rails buckles?