Removal

REMOVAL

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, 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.





1. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
2. Remove the trim from the left cowl side inner panel. .
3. Disconnect the external wire harness connections from the Body Control Module (BCM) (1) (also known as the Signal Acquisition and Actuation Module/SAM).
4. Press outward on the latch tab (3) on each side of the lower end of the fuse/relay block #1 mounting bracket (4) on the dash panel while pulling the lower end of the fuse/relay block #1 (5) rearward.
5. Pull the fuse/relay block #1 rearward far enough to disengage it from both latch tabs and the two alignment posts integral to the lower mounting bracket.
6. Pull the fuse and relay block downward far enough to disengage the two posts integral to the upper edge of the unit from the upper end of the mounting bracket behind the instrument panel.
7. Disconnect the fuse/relay block #1 backside wire harness connectors.