What's this button?
 

I'm installing a infant seat into my 1999.5 1.8QT Avant (good dad mobile, amiright?) and noticed something funny. There is a button on the bottom of the drivers side B pillar about midway inside the car. The button looks like it's a vent coming from the ceiling. I have no clue what this is, but it looks cool!

What's it do?

turns the motion sensors on and off

oh, come on now... this car has motion sensors? At one point, I was a ASE master... now I don't even know my car has motion sensors?

So what are they for? Not Airbags...

its motion sensors for the alarm system in the car. basically if you by accident leave your dog in the car, it will go off. if you leave the windows cracked and some one reaches inside they will go off. stuff like that.

Ahhh... brilliant as usual. Thank you for the clarification. Actually explains a situation where the dog did trip the alarm and looked sheepish when I returned to investigate. Thought the alarm had a ghost. Nice to see that I was wrong!

or if you leave your window down in your driveway and its a little breezy it will go off and make you jump off the couch and run outside just to see no one at all around because you live in the country...


atleast thats what happens to me... and thats when i turned MINE off : )

yea, atleast it still trips when someone tries to open the door when the sensor is turned off

ive noticed that on really hot days, i think the heat waves can trip it off too. ive had it go off for no reason on 90* days.

as soon as i saw the title i said to myself, i bet its the motion sensor switch.....