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Driver's Seat Side Air Bag Problems: Anyone Else Plagued With Air Bag Light?
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<blockquote data-quote="Comp04svt" data-source="post: 15758668" data-attributes="member: 73358"><p>I am a GM technician by trade, and I deal mostly in electrical and restraint systems at the dealer I am at currently. GM has a lot of air bag connector issues, and I'm sure Ford does as well. There have been service bulletins (TSB's) upon service bulletins about these issues, along with recalls, lol. Some cars have different connectors they want you to use, some have you actually hard wire and eliminate the connector. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the connectors GM uses are the same as what Ford uses. In this day and age, everything is done cheaper and cheaper. In the old days there weren't as many issues with air bag connections as they used gold plated connections, to eliminate "terminal fretting" and high resistance, and of course due to cost, they don't as much now.</p><p></p><p>Sounds like "terminal fretting" is your issue. Which "is a build-up of insulating, oxidized wear debris that can form when there is a small motion between electrical contacts. The oxidized wear debris can accumulate at the electrical contact points causing the electrical resistance across the connection to increase."<em> </em></p><p></p><p>Long story short, I would take it back and ask them if there are any new TSB's/bulletins for what you have going on. Honestly if there aren't any and they do the same repair as last time, you'll have the same issue again and again. Unless there is something telling them what connector to use, that's probably what they'll do, and if that is the case, the only permanent repair would be to eliminate the connector and hard wire the connections.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Comp04svt, post: 15758668, member: 73358"] I am a GM technician by trade, and I deal mostly in electrical and restraint systems at the dealer I am at currently. GM has a lot of air bag connector issues, and I'm sure Ford does as well. There have been service bulletins (TSB's) upon service bulletins about these issues, along with recalls, lol. Some cars have different connectors they want you to use, some have you actually hard wire and eliminate the connector. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the connectors GM uses are the same as what Ford uses. In this day and age, everything is done cheaper and cheaper. In the old days there weren't as many issues with air bag connections as they used gold plated connections, to eliminate "terminal fretting" and high resistance, and of course due to cost, they don't as much now. Sounds like "terminal fretting" is your issue. Which "is a build-up of insulating, oxidized wear debris that can form when there is a small motion between electrical contacts. The oxidized wear debris can accumulate at the electrical contact points causing the electrical resistance across the connection to increase."[I] [/I] Long story short, I would take it back and ask them if there are any new TSB's/bulletins for what you have going on. Honestly if there aren't any and they do the same repair as last time, you'll have the same issue again and again. Unless there is something telling them what connector to use, that's probably what they'll do, and if that is the case, the only permanent repair would be to eliminate the connector and hard wire the connections. [/QUOTE]
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