It happened to mine, too. I have a used switch that I just haven't gotten around to installing -- the lazy solution is that we just take another car when my wife might drive.

Like Klaus said, try not to bang on the silver thing under the plastic cover, it's the detonator for the side airbag.

-BTC

'98 V70 T5 5-speed, 174k mi, heated velour cloth comfy chairs, factory HD suspension, Bilstein HD, front IPD stabilizer bar, Volvo strut tower brace and skidplate, XC grill, C70 jewel E-Codes, V-1, Lidatek, IPD stuff, JB Weld, Original Duck tape, zip-ties, two '06 Honda license plate nut impressions in back bumper (gift from daughter), Mobil-1 since new.

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - Douglas Noel Adams (1952 - 2001)