Expert: Douglas Gan - 11/23/2009

Question
air bag light is on dodge ram van 1500 2001
air bag light flash and then stay on ford 250E van 2001

Answer
Hello Carlos:

2 cars eh?

The Dodge Ram will require a specific Chrysler scan tool to read and diagnose the airbag problem. there is no way around that.

The Ford van is different.  The flashing light on your car is telling there is a problem.  On some vehicles, the light is flashing a two digit code. count the flashes taking note of the pause between them (flash, flash, flash, pause, flash, flash...long pause, repeat--- is a code 32)  Once you know the code, yo can find out what it means at this site.  
Airbagsolutions.com has the fault code charts to tell you what is wrong!  Although it’s a pay site ($14.95/day), it’s a lot cheaper than going to the dealer.  
Then, you can most likely repair it yourself.  There are fairly easy procedures that most people are capable of repairing.  

I hope this helps

Doug