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 PAB door. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, the Passenger AirBag (PAB) door must never be painted. Replacement PAB units are serviced with PAB doors in the original colors. Paint may change the way in which the material of the PAB 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. Service and Repair . 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. Service and Repair .





1. Carefully position the passenger airbag and airbag door through the opening in the top of the instrument panel base trim as a unit. Be certain that the two studs of the passenger airbag lower bracket are engaged in the holes of the instrument panel armature (1).
2. Install and tighten the two nuts (4) that secure the passenger airbag lower bracket to the instrument panel armature. Tighten the nuts to 6 Nm (55 in. lbs.).
3. Reconnect the two connector insulators (2) of the instrument panel wire harness passenger airbag take outs to the airbag inflator 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.
4. Using hand pressure, push down on the passenger airbag door over each snap feature on the edges of the airbag door until it snaps into its receptacle in the instrument panel base trim.
5. Reinstall the glove box into the instrument panel. Instrument Panel Glove Box - Installation.
6. Reinstall the top cover onto the top of the instrument panel. Instrument Panel Cover - Installation.
7. 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.