Module, Body Control: Removal: Removal
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 follow these instructions may result in accidental airbag deployment.
- Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
- Remove the left side dash end cap. Refer to CAP, INSTRUMENT PANEL END, REMOVAL .
- Remove the lower left side A-Pillar extension trim.
- Remove the knee blocker cover from the instrument panel. Refer to KNEEBLOCKER, REMOVAL .
- Disconnect up to eight wire harness connectors from the connector receptacles of the Body Control Module (BCM) (3). Six integral connector receptacles are located on the rearward facing surface of the BCM housing and two are on the forward facing surface.
- Remove the four screws (1) that secure the yoke-like BCM mounting brackets (4) to the instrument panel support structure (2) outboard of the steering column.
- Remove the BCM and mounting brackets from the instrument panel as a unit.
- Remove the four screws (3) that secure the BCM (1) to the mounting brackets (2).
- Unsnap and remove the BCM from the mounting brackets.