Have you check the ground locations for the PCM and the airbag/belt system?

 

Not yet...


I will if I get the light again...


Up to 250+ miles with no light

 

Well now it is going on and off every 2 minutes...


This is unreal...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr r


I am going to have to go to the dealer...Ive checked grounds, wiring etc...I can not figure it out.


Any other suggestions???? The only thing I can even relate it to is when I turn or brake the van...but 1 out of 4 times it comes on just driving down the road...


thanks all.

 

dealer will only replace the clock spring

 

ive used two replacements just to try to eliminate that -- is isn't the clock spring


I also pulled a new seatbelt from a 03 in the boneyard. Installed and still have the same symptoms.

Today no light -- yesterday 10 lights...


I am leaning to a ground issue.


Does anyone know where the grounds would be for the airbag components. I would assume somewhere on the firewall? I am sure there is a special ground(s) for the airbag system / seat belt.

 

After reading all this it seems to me you have covered the obvious. And I don't think seatbelt switches or grounds would cause this.

I'm voting for bad connectors to the airbag module or bad module. Theres are several large wiring harnesses running down your driver floorboard as its located *quite* inconveniently directly under the front seat.

Personally I'm ripping mine out first chance I get, useless crap IMO.

 

UPDATE -
So I took the van to one of the more professional techs in the area on a suggestion by a friend.
He cannot find anything wrong - but he stated he cannot test the airbag module.
They ohmed all the wiring, seat belts, clockspring etc and everything is in spec.
He said the best he could speculate is the module is flaky - basically a bad computer.
Since I am technical myself, it makes sense that we may have bad memory, processor or software. To me it does seem to act like it.


He told me the module is under the drivers seat. When I look under there I don't see a module...there is a plastic dome looking part with a lot of wires in it. Is the module under the dome??


Also I will try to pick one up second hand - is there anything specific about the part numbers for the module??


thanks for all the info guys...


Joe

 

So yes the airbag module is under the dome looking thing under the drivers seat.
I got a used on off of ebay and swapped it out. Went on two medium drives -- no light...


I really need to go a week...we will see...


hmmmmmm praying it works!

 

well it came on again --- piece of Sh**

 

Put a piece of tape over it.