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Jun 24, 2016 | 04:04 PM

sudsmcduff

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Air bag light flashing

Came on other day. No ses light or fault codes. Any ideas what it means? Thanks

Jun 24, 2016 | 04:08 PM

Otto396

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Probably means a fault in the safety system. Not sure. Never dealt with those before

Is it the one in the gauge cluster or the other one that controls the passenger airbag?

Jun 24, 2016 | 04:09 PM

sudsmcduff

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Bottom right gauge cluster

Jun 24, 2016 | 04:10 PM

Otto396

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Have you messed with anything in the steering column recently? Maybe a wire was knocked loose.

Jun 24, 2016 | 04:13 PM

Pikachu

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There should be a code stores in the ECS module, if you have a way to read them. ForScan and AE will read that module.

Jun 24, 2016 | 04:42 PM

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Truck sat for few months and then light came on. Never messed with steering column. I have a scan gauge but nothing on it. My grandfather has one of those expensive snap on code readers. I will get it too him this weekend

Jun 24, 2016 | 05:25 PM

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Did some searching and found out the flashing is a sequence code. Mine does 4-7. Gonna google and see what I find

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Jun 24, 2016 | 06:19 PM

Rikster-7700

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Lol I think that was the quickest solution to a problem in a long time! Glad you got it fixed and thank you for following up!

Jun 24, 2016 | 06:20 PM

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Pikachu

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Check the wiring connector under the passenger seat.

EDIT: Should have refreshed the page before I typed that, lol.

Jun 25, 2016 | 08:22 AM

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Yep suds is correct. The airbag light blinking is trying to give you a 2 digit fault code. It will repeat the code (or codes) over and over so you can count them and when they start repeating you have them all. It will blink the first digit, then a short pause, then blink the second digit. Google the codes up and find your problem. Actually a pretty simple process in comparison to the complexity identifying other faults.