Passenger Air Bag - Disassembly

DISASSEMBLY

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) 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 SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, service of this unit should be performed only by Chrysler-trained and authorized dealer service technicians. Failure to take the proper precautions or to follow the proper procedures could result in accidental, incomplete, or improper airbag deployment and possible occupant injuries.

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, use extreme care to prevent any foreign material from entering the passenger airbag, or becoming entrapped between the passenger airbag cushion and the passenger airbag door. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.

WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, the passenger airbag door must never be painted. Replacement airbag doors are serviced in the original colors. Paint may change the way in which the material of the airbag door responds to an airbag deployment. Failure to observe this warning could result in occupant injuries upon airbag deployment.

NOTE: The following procedures can be used to replace the passenger airbag door. If the passenger airbag is deployed, the passenger airbag unit and the airbag door must both be replaced.





1. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable. Wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before further service.
2. Remove the passenger airbag from the instrument panel. Passenger Air Bag - Removal.
3. Place the passenger airbag on a suitable work surface with the passenger airbag door (2) facing down. If the airbag door will be reused, be certain to take the proper precautions to prevent the airbag door from receiving cosmetic damage during the following procedures.
4. Disengage each of the 12 hooks (3) of the airbag housing (1) from the 12 windows in the vertical walls of the receptacle on the back of the airbag door. To disengage the hooks:
a. Use hand pressure to push the airbag housing fully against the upper or lower wall of the airbag door receptacle.
b. Insert a trim stick or another suitable prying tool into the large gap between the airbag housing and the opposite wall of the receptacle.
c. Pry outward between the airbag housing and the receptacle wall far enough to disengage all 6 upper or lower hooks from their corresponding windows.
d. Rotate the disengaged edge of the airbag housing upward far enough to disengage the remaining 6 hooks from their corresponding windows in the receptacle wall.
5. With all of the hooks disengaged, lift the housing, inflator and cushion from the receptacle on the back of the passenger airbag door.