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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: 15765365" data-attributes="member: 73358"><p>You're welcome! Yeah, that is what I wonder, but if they save 5 cents a car times every car made, vs how many they have issues with, they'll still save a ton of money unfortunately. </p><p></p><p>Yes I hard wire those connectors out all the time. The only downside to doing so is if you ever need to remove the seat, you'll just have to re do the solder job, but how often is one removing seats. </p><p></p><p>Not really any liability involved I can see, as it's a more solid repair anyways. The only liability is when someone doesn't know how to solder, or make a simple wire repair. The huge recall GM had with the Traverse/Acadia/Enclave, had you do exactly that, remove the seat mounted air bag connectors from both front seats. Basically they had previous TSB's to use different connectors and couple different times, then decided to just recall them and have us remove them all together. Then they recalled them again because they found that so many "technicians" weren't doing the recall correctly and/or "half ass-ing" the job. </p><p></p><p>I've had to do that type of repair to other areas on different vehicles as well. Usually when there aren't any "instructions" from GM. It really comes down to the fact that the car needs to be fixed right because of safety, and because I don't want to work on it again for that reason, haha.</p><p></p><p>Aside from doing the job correctly, the other thing I would make sure of is to first wrap the "repaired" area with a abrasion tape for protection, then yellow electrical tape over that. The standard usually is that SIR components and connectors are identified by yellow. So by using the yellow tape reminds you or anyone working on the car for you, that those are air bag circuits.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the couple long winded posts!! LOL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Comp04svt, post: 15765365, member: 73358"] You're welcome! Yeah, that is what I wonder, but if they save 5 cents a car times every car made, vs how many they have issues with, they'll still save a ton of money unfortunately. Yes I hard wire those connectors out all the time. The only downside to doing so is if you ever need to remove the seat, you'll just have to re do the solder job, but how often is one removing seats. Not really any liability involved I can see, as it's a more solid repair anyways. The only liability is when someone doesn't know how to solder, or make a simple wire repair. The huge recall GM had with the Traverse/Acadia/Enclave, had you do exactly that, remove the seat mounted air bag connectors from both front seats. Basically they had previous TSB's to use different connectors and couple different times, then decided to just recall them and have us remove them all together. Then they recalled them again because they found that so many "technicians" weren't doing the recall correctly and/or "half ass-ing" the job. I've had to do that type of repair to other areas on different vehicles as well. Usually when there aren't any "instructions" from GM. It really comes down to the fact that the car needs to be fixed right because of safety, and because I don't want to work on it again for that reason, haha. Aside from doing the job correctly, the other thing I would make sure of is to first wrap the "repaired" area with a abrasion tape for protection, then yellow electrical tape over that. The standard usually is that SIR components and connectors are identified by yellow. So by using the yellow tape reminds you or anyone working on the car for you, that those are air bag circuits. Sorry for the couple long winded posts!! LOL [/QUOTE]
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