Disassembly and Assembly

Passenger Side Airbag


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 the negative battery 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.


To avoid serious or fatal injury, service of this unit should be performed only by Volkswagen 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.


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.


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.

• The following procedures can be used to replace the passenger airbag door. If the passenger airbag is deployed, the passenger airbag and the airbag door must both be replaced.

Disassembly






- Disconnect the negative battery cable.

- Wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before further service.

- Remove the passenger airbag from the instrument panel. Refer to => [ Passengers Side Airbag ] Passengers Side Airbag.

- Place the passenger airbag on a suitable work surface with the passenger airbag door (1) facing down. If the airbag door will be reused, be certain to take the proper precautions to prevent the airbag door from receiving cosmetic damage during the following procedures.

- Disengage each of the 6 hooks (3) of the airbag housing (2) from the windows in the forward wall of the retainer/receptacle (4) on the back of the airbag door. To disengage the hooks, use hand pressure to push the adjacent edge of the airbag housing firmly and evenly downward into the airbag door retainer/receptacle, while at the same time pulling outward on that edge of the retainer/receptacle wall.

- With all of the forward hooks disengaged, roll the forward edge of the airbag housing upward to disengage the 5 lower hooks, then lift the housing and cushion from the receptacle/retainer on the back of the passenger airbag door.

Assembly






- Place the passenger airbag door (1) on a suitable work surface with the airbag retainer/receptacle (4) facing up. Be certain to take the proper precautions to prevent the airbag door from receiving cosmetic damage during the following procedures.

- Carefully position the passenger airbag housing (2) into the airbag door receptacle with the cushion side facing the door.

- Work around the perimeter of the unit engaging each of the 11 hooks (3) on the housing through the windows in the upper and lower walls of the airbag door retainer/receptacle.

- After the passenger airbag has been assembled, try pulling the airbag door and the airbag housing away from each other. Visually verify that this action has fully seated all of the windows of the airbag door retainer/receptacle into the cradles of the airbag housing hooks.

- Install the passenger airbag into the instrument panel. Refer to => [ Passengers Side Airbag ] Passengers Side Airbag.