Installation

INSTALLATION

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the supplemental restraint system before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, occupant classification system, 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 supplemental restraint system. 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, or becoming entrapped between the passenger airbag cushion and the passenger airbag door. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, the passenger airbag door must never be painted. Replacement passenger airbag units are serviced with doors in the original colors. Paint may change the way in which the material of the airbag door 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. If the airbag is ineffective or damaged, but not deployed, review the recommended procedures for handling non-deployed supplemental restraints. If the passenger airbag has been deployed, review the recommended procedures for service after a supplemental restraint deployment before removing the airbag from the vehicle.




1. Carefully position the passenger airbag and airbag door unit (4) to the instrument panel.
2. Reconnect the ground wire (1) to the passenger airbag housing.
3. Reconnect the vehicle wire harness connector (5) to the airbag inflator connector receptacle, which is located on the inboard end of the passenger airbag housing. Be certain that the latch on the connector and the orange Connector Position Assurance (CPA) lock are each fully engaged.
4. Slide the passenger airbag unit fully forward into the instrument panel opening.
5. Reach up into the instrument panel glove box opening to access, install and tighten four new screws (2) to secure the stanchions on the back of the passenger airbag housing to the brackets on the instrument panel support structure. Never reuse the old screws. Tighten the screws to 8 Nm (71 in. lbs.).
6. Install and tighten the four screws (3) the tabs on the inboard and outboard ends of the passenger airbag door (4) to the instrument panel base trim. Tighten the screws securely.
7. Reinstall the air outlet bezels at the inboard and outboard ends of the passenger airbag door to the instrument panel.
8. Reinstall the glove box into the instrument panel.

WARNING: DO NOT CONNECT THE BATTERY NEGATIVE CABLE. PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH MAY RESULT IF THE SYSTEM TEST IS NOT PERFORMED FIRST. FOR THE SYSTEM TEST, Supplemental Restraints Verification Test