Passenger Air Bag - Assembly

ASSEMBLY

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, service of this unit should be performed only by Chrysler-trained and authorized dealer service technicians. Failure to take the proper precautions or to follow the proper procedures could result in accidental, incomplete, or improper airbag deployment and possible occupant injuries.

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, use extreme care to prevent any foreign material from entering the passenger airbag, or from becoming entrapped between the airbag cushion and the deployment 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 airbag doors are serviced 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 procedures can be used to replace the passenger airbag door. If the passenger airbag is deployed, the passenger airbag unit and the airbag door must both be replaced.





1. Place the passenger airbag door (2) on a suitable work surface with the airbag receptacle facing up. Be certain to take the proper precautions to prevent the airbag door from receiving cosmetic damage during the following procedures.
2. Carefully position the passenger airbag housing (1) into the airbag door receptacle.
3. Work around the perimeter of the unit engaging each of the 12 hooks (3) on the passenger airbag housing through the 12 windows in the walls of the airbag door receptacle.
4. After the passenger airbag has been assembled, try pulling the airbag door and the airbag housing away from each other. This action will fully seat the edges of the windows into the cradles of the hooks.
5. Reinstall the passenger airbag onto the instrument panel. Passenger Air Bag - Installation.