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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, Occupant Classification System (OCS), 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, 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. 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 After an Airbag Deployment.





1. Position the passenger airbag, airbag door and instrument panel bracket to the opening in the face of the instrument panel base trim as a unit.
2. Reconnect the two connector insulators of the instrument panel wire harness take outs to the airbag inflator connector receptacles on each side of the airbag housing by pressing straight in on the connectors. Be certain to engage each keyed and color-coded connector to the matching connector receptacle. You can be certain that each connector is fully engaged in its receptacle by listening carefully for a distinct, audible click as the connector latches snap into place.
3. Slide the passenger airbag forward being certain that the instrument panel bracket is engaged between the dash panel and the instrument panel structural support at the lower windshield fence line and that the two lower studs of the airbag are engaged in the holes of the instrument panel base trim. It may be necessary to angle the forward end of the unit slightly downward and then roll it upward to engage the instrument panel bracket properly between the fence line and the structural support.
4. Reach up into the instrument panel above the upper glove box opening (2) to install and tighten the two nuts (3) that secure the passenger airbag lower studs to the instrument panel base trim on each side of the glove box latch striker (1). Tighten the nuts to 7 Nm (62 in. lbs.).
5. Reinstall the glove box into the instrument panel. Instrument Panel Glove Box - Installation.




6. Work through the rectangular hole in the top of the instrument panel to install and tighten the one screw that secures the center tab of the passenger airbag instrument panel bracket to the instrument panel structural duct. Tighten the screw to 2.9 Nm (25 in. lbs.).
7. Position the screw guide (3) onto the top of the instrument panel (2) near the windshield (1) and, using hand pressure, press the screw guide downward until both integral latch features snap into place.
8. Install and tighten the two screws (4) through the screw guide that secure the instrument panel bracket for the passenger airbag to the dash panel. Tighten the screws to 29.5 Nm (21.5 ft. lbs.).
9. Using hand pressure, press the top of the passenger airbag door forward and downward until each snap feature on the upper edge of the airbag door is fully engaged into its receptacle in the instrument panel base trim.
10. Using hand pressure, wrap the passenger airbag door downward tightly against the instrument panel, then push forward until each snap feature on the lower edge of the airbag door is fully engaged into its receptacle in the instrument panel base trim.
11. Visually verify that each of the snap features of the airbag door is fully engaged in the instrument panel. There will be a distinct bulge in the door over any snap that is not fully engaged.
12. Reinstall the top cover onto the instrument panel. Installation.


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
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