Air Bag, Passenger: Assembly
To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbags, airbag curtains, knee blocker, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect the Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS)/negative battery cable assembly from the negative battery post, 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 FCA US LLC-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 from becoming entrapped between the airbag cushion and the deployment 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 (PAB) door. If the PAB is deployed, the PAB and the PAB door must both be replaced.
- Place the Passenger AirBag (PAB) door (2) on a suitable work surface with the PAB receptacle facing up. Be certain to take the proper precautions to prevent the PAB door from receiving cosmetic damage during the following procedures.
- Carefully position the PAB housing (1) into the PAB door receptacle.
- Engage each of the 12 hooks (3) of the PAB housing (1) with the 12 windows in the vertical walls of the receptacle on the back of the PAB door. To engage the hooks:
- Rotate the 6 hooks on either the upper or lower edge of the PAB housing through their corresponding windows in the upper or lower wall of the PAB door receptacle.
- Press the opposite edge of the PAB housing down into the PAB door receptacle far enough to engage the remaining 6 hooks through their corresponding windows in the receptacle wall.
- After the PAB has been assembled, try pulling the PAB door and the PAB housing away from each other. This action will fully seat the edges of the windows into the cradles of the hooks.
- Install the PAB into the instrument panel. Refer to AIR BAG, PASSENGER, INSTALLATION .