Description

General Information

Introduction

The Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) is designed to supplement the front seat belts to help reduce the risk or severity of injury to the front seat occupants by activating and deploying two air bags during certain frontal collision.

The SRS consists of: left front and right front impact sensors (located on the right and left front shield plate); air bag modules for the driver (located in the center of the steering wheel) and for the front seat passenger (located above the glove box). Each module contains a folded air bag and an inflator unit. The SRS also contains: a SRS Diagnosis Unit with safing impact sensor (located under the floor console assembly); and SRS warning light to indicate the operational status of the SRS (located on the instrument panel); clock spring (mounted behind the steering wheel); and wiring.

The SRS is designed so that the air bags will deploy when the safing sensor, plus either or both of the left front and right front impact sensors simultaneously activate while the ignition switch is in the ON position. These sensors are designed to activate in frontal or near-frontal impacts of moderate to severe force.

Only authorized service personnel should work on or around SRS components. Those personnel should read this manual carefully before starting such work. Extreme care must be taken when servicing the SRS to avoid injury to service personnel (by inadvertent deployment of the air bags) or to vehicle occupants (by rendering the SRS inoperative).