
Originally Posted by
bbig119
Did mine two weeks ago. I opted to keep the seat in the car and lean/prop it up on the back seat which allowed me to keep the wires connected and test the seat to see if it was fixed or not.
Read this thread here:
One point to pay extra attention to is that we apparently have an airbag sensor under the passenger seat which may affect how you decide to tackle the job. My problem was the driver side so I didn't have to worry about it, so I'm curious to hear what you do in the end.
HTH
It's actually a pressure pad inside the seat base to tell the system whether the passanger seat is occupied, later models had this deleted due to too many sensor failures/faults.
Sometimes disconnection brings the dreaded airbag light up on the dash (needs to be reset with a scanner).
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