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Does anybody have experience changing SRS airbags?
I bought a 1997 Saturn Wagon in Hawaii, as we needed a reliable used car cheap. The owner "forgot" to tell us that the airbags had deployed, and the light on the dash was covered with black tape. I bought some airbags on eBay, and am sending off the SRS control module to get erased and reset so it's like new. The problem is:
The steering wheel airbag connector melted badly when the bag deployed, and it's part of the "clock-spring" harness. I don't want to tear that all down and replace that because one plug is melted. I can splice, and shrink-tube that together, no problem.
My question is: Besides the pain in the butt job, what else do I have to be careful with... besides hoping the bags don't deploy on me accidentally?
1 Answer
- 8 years agoFavourite answer
Reliable isn't a word I would use to describe the Saturns of that generation. As long as their's not juice going to anything in the car, you should be pretty good to swap out the modules without getting smashed in the face and lit on fire. Just be gentle.
