Side Impact Sensor: Removal
WARNING:
To avoid personal injury or death, on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the supplemental restraint system before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor, or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, 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 supplemental restraint system. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.
WARNING:
To avoid personal injury or death, never strike or drop the side impact sensor, as it can damage the impact sensor or affect its calibration. The side impact sensor enables the system to deploy the side curtain airbags. If an impact sensor is accidentally dropped during service, the sensor must be scrapped and replaced with a new unit. Failure to observe this warning could result in accidental, incomplete, or improper supplemental restraint deployment.
- Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable. Wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before further service.
- Remove the trim paneling from the interior of the front door step well. (Refer to BODY/INTERIOR/STEPWELL SCUFF PADS - REMOVAL) .
- Disconnect the vehicle wire harness connector from the side impact sensor connector receptacle. See Fig 1.
1 - SCREW (2) 2 - IMPACT SENSOR 3 - CONNECTOR 4 - STEP WELL - Remove the two screws that secure the side impact sensor to the forward vertical surface of the step well.
- Remove the side impact sensor from the step well.