Side - B-Pillar
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.
To avoid serious or fatal injury, never strike or drop the side impact sensor, as it can damage the impact sensor or affect its calibration. The side impact sensor enables the system to deploy the side curtain supplemental restraints. If an impact sensor is accidentally dropped during service, the sensor must be scrapped and replaced with a new unit. Failure to observe this warning could result in accidental, incomplete, or improper side supplemental restraint deployment.
- Disconnect and isolate the negative battery cable. Wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before further service.
- Remove the trim from the inside of the right or left B-pillar. Refer to PANEL, B-PILLAR TRIM, UPPER, REMOVAL .
- Disconnect the body wire harness connector (3) from the side impact sensor (2) connector receptacle.
- Remove the screw (1) that secures the side impact sensor to the inner B-pillar.
- Disengage the locating and anti-rotation pin of the sensor from the clearance hole in the inner B-pillar.
- Remove the side impact sensor from the vehicle.