Air Bag, Passenger: Installation
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, 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 instrument panel cover must never be painted. Replacement covers are serviced in the original colors. Paint may change the way in which the material of the cover responds to an airbag deployment. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.
The following procedure is for replacement of an ineffective or damaged Passenger AirBag (PAB). If the airbag is ineffective or damaged, but not deployed, review the recommended procedures for Handling Non-Deployed Supplemental Restraints. Refer to STANDARD PROCEDURE . If the PAB has been deployed, review the recommended procedures for Service After A Supplemental Restraint Deployment before removing the airbag from the vehicle. Refer to STANDARD PROCEDURE .
- Position the Passenger AirBag (PAB) and PAB door to the opening in the face of the instrument panel base trim as a unit.
- Connect the two connector insulators of the instrument panel wire harness take outs to the PAB inflator connector receptacles on each side of the PAB housing by pressing straight in on the connectors, then pushing the locks straight into the connectors. Be certain to engage each keyed and color-coded connector to the matching connector receptacle.
- Slide the PAB forward being certain that the upper PAB bracket is engaged with the stud and under the nut on the windshield fence line and that the two lower studs of the PAB are engaged in the holes of the instrument panel armature (2).
- Install and tighten the two nuts (3) that secure the PAB lower studs to the instrument panel armature. Tighten the nuts to 6 N.m (53 in. lbs.).
- Using hand pressure, press the PAB door forward and downward until each snap feature on the edges of the PAB door is fully engaged into its receptacle in the instrument panel base trim.
- Install the grab handle onto the instrument panel. Refer to HANDLE, GRAB, INSTALLATION .
- Install the glove box into the instrument panel. Refer to GLOVE BOX, INSTRUMENT PANEL, INSTALLATION
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- Install the Instrument Cluster Bezel. Refer to BEZEL, INSTRUMENT CLUSTER, INSTALLATION .
- Working through the access hole in the top of the instrument panel (1) between the windshield and the forward edge of the PAB door (3), tighten the nut that secures the PAB upper bracket and the instrument panel armature to the stud near the windshield fence line. Tighten the nut to 12 N.m (106 in. lbs.).
- Install the trim plug (2) into the access hole in the top of the instrument panel.
- Do not connect the negative cable to the battery at this time. The Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) Verification Test procedure should be performed following service of any SRS component. Refer to STANDARD PROCEDURE .