Passenger Air Bag - Installation
INSTALLATION
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, use extreme care to prevent any foreign material from entering the Passenger AirBag (PAB), or becoming entrapped between the PAB cushion and the instrument panel top cover. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, the instrument panel top cover must never be painted. Replacement top covers are serviced in the original colors. Paint may change the way in which the material of the top cover responds to an airbag deployment. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.
NOTE: The following procedure is for replacement of an ineffective or damaged Passenger AirBag (PAB). If the airbag is ineffective or damaged, but not deployed, review the recommended procedures for Handling Non-Deployed Supplemental Restraints. Service and Repair . If the PAB has been deployed, review the recommended procedures for Service After A Supplemental Restraint Deployment before removing the airbag from the vehicle. Service and Repair .
1. Place the instrument panel top cover (top pad) (1) on a suitable work surface with the airbag retainer or chute (2) receptacle facing up. Be certain to take the proper precautions to prevent the top cover from receiving cosmetic damage during the following procedures.
2. Carefully position the Passenger AirBag (PAB) housing (3) to the airbag retainer receptacle. The side of the housing with 8 hooks faces the defroster duct outlet or forward in the vehicle.
3. Engage all of the hooks on one side of the airbag housing through the windows on the same side of the retainer, then rotate the opposite side of the airbag housing downward into the receptacle.
4. Inspect around the perimeter of the unit making certain each of the hooks on the PAB housing is fully engaged through the windows in the forward and rearward vertical walls of the retainer receptacle.
5. With all of the hooks engaged, position the instrument panel top cover over the instrument panel base trim and structural support.
6. Lift the top cover (top pad) upward from the top of the instrument panel base trim far enough to access and reconnect the two connector insulators (2) of the instrument panel wire harness PAB take outs to the airbag inflator (3) connector receptacles by pressing straight in on the connectors, then pushing the locks straight into the connectors. Be certain to engage each keyed and color-coded connector to the matching connector receptacle.
NOTE: The instrument panel wire harness containing the Passenger AirBag (PAB) circuits also contains the electrical circuits connected to the overhead wire harness and the body ground circuits secured through eyelet terminals by a nut to a stud on the passenger side A-pillar just above the top of the instrument panel. If disconnected or removed during PAB removal, be certain to reconnect the instrument panel to overhead wire harness connection and reinstall the nut securing the body ground eyelets to the A-pillar after reconnecting the PAB inflator connectors.
7. Reinstall the top cover onto the instrument panel. Instrument Panel Pad - Installation. Be certain that the two studs of the PAB lower bracket are engaged in the holes of the instrument panel structural support.
8. Reach through and above the instrument panel upper glove box opening to install and tighten the two nuts (4) that secure the PAB lower bracket studs to the instrument panel structural support. Tighten the nuts to 6 Nm (55 in. lbs.).
9. Reinstall the glove box into the instrument panel. Instrument Panel Glove Box - Installation.
10. Do not reconnect the battery negative cable at this time. The Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) Verification Test procedure should be performed following service of any SRS component. Service and Repair.