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Airbag dash light on.

Postby GDII » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:27 pm

A while ago I removed the whole steering column from my mums 2000 AE111 corolla XL wagon face lift. The ignition lock was stuffed so Toyota told us to remove it and take it to get rebuilt. I had to unplug all the wires to get it out.

Now there is the yellow wires (airbag wire) and a few other plugs for the driver controls. But there is also TWO small plugs (from the car loom but only ONE from the steering column) with two wires each. They both have very similar colours, not 100% on what they are, Dad took the car out tonight when I was going to check it. I didn't pay attention to which plug was in when I took it out. :oops:

I have tried reseting the ECU by removing the battery for 12 hours.
Mum took it to toyota today and they said they couldn't fix it unless they looked at the steering column. That will cost.
The only thing I haven't tried is swapping the small plugs over and reseting the ECU.

Has anyone else done this before? Got any advice? We will take it back to Toyota Thursday, but I want to try fix it myself before then.
1990 SW20 MR2
Previous 1990 EE90 Corolla
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Re: Airbag dash light on.

Postby barryogen » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:38 am

GDII wrote:Got any advice?


Be careful... a mate of mine had a workmate that had his neck broken when re-plugging the airbag as it was enough to set it off. I'm not sure on the exact details of it, but it was enough to scare the bejesus out of me when it comes to airbags.
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