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Well, the babysmart equipment is a definite problem, seeing what was all done. I agree that the sensor could be removed and installed under the seat. If I am correct about this, you could also install a jumper to the babysmart connection on the harness as well, I thought I read about someone doing that. You can test the sensor to see what the resistance is across the 2 wires and substitute a resistor, in case simply jumping the 2 wires together doesn't work.
Hard to say why the SRS light was on on the 1998 though, that could have been related to the seat belt buckle switches, another common failure. Then of course you had the airbag removed on the 2003, so that can be a problem that needs to be erased as well.
I would assume the seat belt buckles are the same (and the buckle switches) between the 98 and 03. I would almost want to recommend swapping the buckles from the 03 seats onto the 98 seats.
Actually the best bet might be to replace the heater pads on the 03 and put them back in, unless the heater pads are crazy money, I know some seats you have to buy the whole stinking cover to get pads, but most of the time you buy just the pads. Not that bad of a job. Are just the lower parts inop or the backrest heaters too? usually it's just the bottom pads.
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