Flashing Air Bag light!!!???!!!
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Flashing Air Bag light!!!???!!!
My airbag light keeps flashing, and it kinda scares me. I don't want that
sumb!tch deciding to pop out when I'm on the highway. I know the thick yellow wire under the dash is the airbag wire; but why is the light flashing, and will disconnecting it make it stop? Kind of an odd/ newbie question, I know, but... any help here would be great.
sumb!tch deciding to pop out when I'm on the highway. I know the thick yellow wire under the dash is the airbag wire; but why is the light flashing, and will disconnecting it make it stop? Kind of an odd/ newbie question, I know, but... any help here would be great.
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Sorry for the "my truck", you know how it is... Anyhow. It is a '94 F-150 4x4 with a 4.9 and a 5 speed. Like I stated above, I know the basics, what I'm looking for is somebody who may have experience with this. The way I got it figured, if I disconnect the battery, disconnect the wire (it plugs together under the dash), and make sure (read tape) the connectors don't touch, I should be good.
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Ok CAPTAINMORGAN, but do you mean black electrical tape as in what I said before, or as in taping the two connectors under the dash together? Or something else entirely?
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From: Marlboro Mental Hospital.
disconnecting the sensors will do nothing. the light is on because the computer is not sensing that there is an airbag connected in the first place. the problem is a broken wire in the "clock spring assembly" under the steering wheel. this is the wire bundle that connects the air bag, horn, and criuse control buttons on the steering wheel to the trucks main wireing harness. it is a simple repair, cost is around $65, and takes about 2 hours to replace.
i bet your cruise control and horn don't work either if the light has been on for a while. it starts with the air bag going out, then as it ages you will loose the cruise, and lastly the horn
i bet your cruise control and horn don't work either if the light has been on for a while. it starts with the air bag going out, then as it ages you will loose the cruise, and lastly the horn
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I have a 94 f 150 and the same light has been frashing for a few yaers now. If you watch it it will fash a code and that will tell you what is wrong. Any thing from a bad sensor to a brocken wire under the front seats. I only just found this out because the girlfriend just bot an explorer of the ford lot and it had a flashing airbag light that I had them fix.
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thanks Cap. I do not have cruise, as it is an XL, but you are right about the horn buttons, they don't work either. Now that I know its nothing to worry about I think I'll just leave it be. I go muddin alot, thats mostly why I was worried about it. I've seen more than a few airbags deploy when somebody comes down hard or nicks a tree.
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The flashing air bag light is a two digit code, is could be a lot of things, count the flashes and post them. Mine flashed a code (43 I think) that there was and open wire under the hood, I bypassed the bad spot in the wire and the code quit.
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My light flashed on my 96 for a couple of years. One of the sensors in the grill was cracked in half with rust spewing out of it. I got into a 70mph head on collision with it 2 years ago and the air bag didn't work. Go figure?
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Originally Posted by tjc transport
disconnecting the sensors will do nothing. the light is on because the computer is not sensing that there is an airbag connected in the first place. the problem is a broken wire in the "clock spring assembly" under the steering wheel. this is the wire bundle that connects the air bag, horn, and criuse control buttons on the steering wheel to the trucks main wireing harness. it is a simple repair, cost is around $65, and takes about 2 hours to replace.
i bet your cruise control and horn don't work either if the light has been on for a while. it starts with the air bag going out, then as it ages you will loose the cruise, and lastly the horn
i bet your cruise control and horn don't work either if the light has been on for a while. it starts with the air bag going out, then as it ages you will loose the cruise, and lastly the horn