Speed Control Switch - Removal

REMOVAL

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.





1. Disconnect and isolate the negative battery cable.
2. Remove the driver air bag from the steering wheel. Driver Air Bag - Removal.

NOTE: If equipped with Blue And Me (1) steering wheel switch pod in the left steering wheel spoke (2) the pigtail wire harness and connector for the speed control switch pod and the Blue And Me switch pod is shared. Both switch pods are removed and replaced only as a single unit.

3. If equipped with the Blue And Me switch pod, using a trim stick or another suitable wide flat-bladed tool, carefully pry the lower end of the switch pod up and out of the left horizontal steering wheel spoke and disengage the switch pod from the steering wheel.





4. Using a trim stick or another suitable wide flat-bladed tool, carefully pry the lower end (2) of the speed control switch pod (1) up and out of the right horizontal steering wheel spoke and disengage the switch pod from the steering wheel.
5. Disengage the switch pigtail wire harness from the retainers within the hub cavity of the steering wheel.
6. Disconnect the switch pigtail wire harness connector from the clockspring pigtail wire connector.
7. Remove the speed control switch pod and (if equipped) the Blue And Me switch pod from the steering wheel as a unit.