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Chrysler Pacifica sub install / side curtain airbag mishap?

i was helping a friend install subwoofers and an amp in his pacifica today when i did the most idiotic thing i have ever done in my many years of stereo installations.

i traced the driver's side rear door speaker wires to their location inside the cabin peeled back the coating and tested them with a nine volt battery in order to make the speaker pop.. it did. on the passenger side i had a horrible brain fart and thought i knew which wires to use... well.. i was wrong and i couldn't have picked a worse pair. i cut and tested the wires and the charge for the side curtain airbag blew up in my face... not good!! luckily the car does not have side curtain airbags but the light in the dash is permanently on. is this a code? did the explosion either create or break a circuit that i could close / open? if there is anyone who has knowledge of the wiring of this car and could help me out i would be very much abliged!!

i have been installing 12 volt systems for many many years without incident... i can't believe how stupid i was in trying to create a shortcut!! i'm already beating myself up about it enough.. please don't add to the agony. i was installing the speakers as a favor and did not earn any $ for the job.

i tryed to help a friend out and may have caused some serious repurcussions on his lease.

please help!!

thanks in advance.

Update:

hi mike,

the wire was never cut.. i simply cut and spread the coating on the wires. i have wrapped the spots in electrical tape and the car is 100% put back together. the stereo sounds awesome.

so the code needs to be removed by hooking up the ECU. thanks!

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  • Mark B
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    OK, so I understand this right, you actually heard a charge go off, but no airbag was deployed, right?

    If you heard a charge go off, then something will almost certainly need replaced to get the light to go out. A scan tool will not clear a code that is still existing, and if you heard a charge go off, then it was likely a seatbelt pre-tensioner charge. The scanner will tell for sure by letting them know what is causing the code.

    The seatbelt pre-tensioner charge will tighten the seatbelt in an accident to help prevent injuries. It triggers the charge which tightens the belt, so it might not be obvious it has been triggered.

    A replacement seat belt with a pre-tensioner could be a bit expensive, some get up around $300 or more.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    component airbags are mandatory. with out them any form of component collision, a rollover, or possibly a frontal collision is extra risky. component airbags avert ejection from the motor vehicle for the duration of a rollover, and you could ought to make particular the component curtain airbags have a rollover sensor, because it may enable the airbags to stay inflated longer in a rollover. additionally, you ought to confirm you're getting a motor vehicle with stability administration - extraordinarily if it incredibly is larger. the government has mandated all automobiles have stability administration via 2012 i've got faith, because it incredibly is mandatory to controlling the motor vehicle. Even in a frontal collision component airbags, if deployed, help in preserving the circulate of the occupants controlled. additionally, you ought to make particular the frontal airbags are twin-degree, multi-degree, or what are called 'clever' airbags. this capacity they many times have an occupant type sensor, yet another coming near destiny mandate via the government. this capacity while your daughter comes to a decision to start sitting interior the front seat, the occupant classifier will weigh her, exhibit screen no remember if or not she's donning her seat belt, and reckoning on the motor vehicle sort use different data together with her top, seating place, crash intensity, etc. to place in the frontal airbags at differing forces or sizes. the two between the automobiles you point out have 5 celeb passenger component rankings, which capacity your infants will maximum possibly be secure sitting interior the back, yet a 4 celeb driving force component score, which capacity there ought to probable be harm to you. i could purely want to tension one very final time, component airbags are mandatory. I continually tell each physique i be conscious of to get them of their next motor vehicle, as i've got watched attempting out video clips the place the crash attempt dummy's head strikes the crash barrier (hypothetically yet another motor vehicle's grill) while the motor vehicle would not have component curtain airbags. this could kill you.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The first thing your going you need to do is repair the wire. Second thing is the car has to be put on a computer to get the air bag light to go out. Most shops can do this so long as they have a good computer ( Snap on, Mac, OCM etc...). If not you'll have to go to the Chrysler dealer. I had to have a light turned out once, due to unpluging the the air bag switch then turning the key on. It happens .

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