Nissan Primera P12: Disable airbag passengerside

we shouldn't have to try to disable the system in this way, it should have been taken care of by Nissan so we can turn the passenger air bags off with a key or switch.

I'm usually the only person in my car so I don't want (God Forbid) to be having to replace the whole dash when turning off the passenger side should have been an option fitted as standard as is on most cars now.

I've had the experience of replacing the air bags and dash on a 2010 VW Golf because the owner didn't turn off the passenger side when he was driving alone........

It added about £800 to the overall cost of the work involved, side airbags fired, passenger seat bags fired, passenger dash fired, and the whole dash had to be replaced as well!!!!

Had he turned the passenger side off, all that would have fired would have been the steering wheel, lower leg airbag to push your feet off the pedals, and that was it.

It was good experience on replacing all of it though.

I'm aware the system is not designed to be switched off, and I agree that Nissan should have designed it with the option to disable it. However, the situation is the way it is and I'd like to find a way to deal with it rather than complaining about it.

Would simply disconnecting the connector over the glow box do the job?

Does the airbag switch on other cars disable the pre-tensioner as well as the airbag?

I'm aware of those risks, and I'm willing to take them. If disabling passenger airbag is not doable, I'll unplug the fuse to disable all airbags.
Keep in mind that back in 2000 when the P12 was designed, just a few cars (if any?) had the option to disable passenger airbag by switch/key. They all claimed children should be in the back seat. Most manufactures offered customers to disable the passenger airbag (and put a large sticker "airbag disabled" on their dash) if they took it to a authorized workshop. I don't know if nissan offered this.

Today most (all?) cars have a option to switch the passenger airbag off, even thou all the warnings from the P12 production years still apply.

I did not intend for this thread to be a political discussion, so lets keep it practical. Is the suggested way to disable passenger airbag the way to go?
(If nissan was one of those who offered to disable airbags, what did they do in the workshop when they performed this?)

I'm using resistors instead of airbags in my p11GT seats.

Not sure if that's possible for your p12, and in the dash I assume?