I bought my Passat (2004) in for an MOT retest on Saturday morning at 11am to a garage and they had my car until I called at 16:45. On first starting my car, a warning message came up on the dashboard saying Airbag Fault. When I delivered the car there was no error message (the car had been started twice that morning just prior to delivering it with no such error message). The garage are claiming that this is not a result of the MOT retest (the car had initially failed on 2 CV boots and also had brake discs and pads replaced the same Saturday morning, but at a different garage and no error message appeared with them).

I returned to the MOT garage on Sunday and had a diagnostic test performed, which said that there was an ‘open circuit on the passenger side’. They advised that I have a specialist airbag person look at this. All I know is that I took the car in for an MOT retest and had no warning light, and now I have a warning light, and I really think this is the responsibility of garage and they should rectify the matter. I look forward to your opinion and what I should do.