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The first thing I had to do is send in the NHTSA airbag on-off switch application.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/brochure/Req_Form.html
Send it by fax for faster service and include a phone number on you cover page. They called me the next day to say I had the VIN wrong. I had it right, but their database was not updated. I eventually convinced the guy to send me the waiver.
A few days later the waiver came via mail. So I had to pick a company to do it. aoelectrical.com and airbagonoff.com seem to be the two major nationwide installers based on web searches and their ads that came with the waiver. I went with airbagonoff because they are headquartered closer to me and they had lots of sportscar install pictures on their site.
Here is a list of installers.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/switch_install/
Bob Brown from airbagonoff.com is a traveling installer and their company will install nationwide. Bob worked on the car for two hours last Fri at my office parking lot but he couldn't find the air controller. His schedule put him back in my area the following Tuesday. By then I was able to give him shop drawings of how the dash came apart and a wiring diagram. (Thanks to Ramsey at Princeton Lotus) To make a long story short, the front of the dash has to come out so that the top of the dash can come out. The airbag controller is somewhere near the front passenger speaker.
You have to give the waiver from NHTSA to the installer because they fill it out and mail it back to NHTSA.
Bob Said the packaging makes the install a little harder than most. He charged me about $400 bucks but he said he would need to charge others a little more. He spent over 5 hrs on my car but now that he has done it once I'd say it is a 3hr job.
For you engineer types, you'll be impressed that the installer was a real engineer and had his PE.
Overall I recommend them.
Sensible Solutions, LLC
airbagonoff.com
877-773-7908
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/brochure/Req_Form.html
Send it by fax for faster service and include a phone number on you cover page. They called me the next day to say I had the VIN wrong. I had it right, but their database was not updated. I eventually convinced the guy to send me the waiver.
A few days later the waiver came via mail. So I had to pick a company to do it. aoelectrical.com and airbagonoff.com seem to be the two major nationwide installers based on web searches and their ads that came with the waiver. I went with airbagonoff because they are headquartered closer to me and they had lots of sportscar install pictures on their site.
Here is a list of installers.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/airbags/switch_install/
Bob Brown from airbagonoff.com is a traveling installer and their company will install nationwide. Bob worked on the car for two hours last Fri at my office parking lot but he couldn't find the air controller. His schedule put him back in my area the following Tuesday. By then I was able to give him shop drawings of how the dash came apart and a wiring diagram. (Thanks to Ramsey at Princeton Lotus) To make a long story short, the front of the dash has to come out so that the top of the dash can come out. The airbag controller is somewhere near the front passenger speaker.
You have to give the waiver from NHTSA to the installer because they fill it out and mail it back to NHTSA.
Bob Said the packaging makes the install a little harder than most. He charged me about $400 bucks but he said he would need to charge others a little more. He spent over 5 hrs on my car but now that he has done it once I'd say it is a 3hr job.
For you engineer types, you'll be impressed that the installer was a real engineer and had his PE.
Overall I recommend them.
Sensible Solutions, LLC
airbagonoff.com
877-773-7908