Notes If the air bag light stays on in your instrument cluster this usually indicates a problem somewhere in the air bag system. However, for some reason, if you remove the instrument cluster and turn on your car while the cluster is disconnected the air bag light will stay on. The repair manual calls this a "Code 41 - Malfunction stored in memory." Obviously this little light is really annoying; here's how to turn it off. Parts/Supplies Needed:
Here's a picture of the problem. 1) Connect two wires long enough to reach the ground/floor to terminal Tc and AB of the TDCL port. The TDCL port is located under the driver's side right above the parking brake. In this picture the blue wire is connected to terminal Tc and the red wire is connected to terminal AB. 2) Connect a wire long enough to reach the ground/floor to a grounded point on your car. I connected this green wire to the bolt that holds the driver's side courtesy switch on using an alligator clip. Just lift up the bottom section of the rubber cover to see it; sorry about the blurry pic. 3) Turn the ignition switch to ACC or ON and then wait at least 6 seconds. 4) Now you need to do what I call "the wire dance." You're going to alternate touching the ends of the Tc and AB wires to the ground wire. Let the ground wire lay on the floor then you can easily touch the Tc and AB wires against it. Start by touching the end of the Tc wire to the ground wire for one second. After a second, instantly remove the Tc wire and replace it with the AB wire touching the ground wire for one second. Now instantly replace it with the Tc wire for the 3rd second, then instantly replace it with the AB wire for the fourth second. Finally, instantly replace the AB wire with the Tc wire and hold the Tc wire on the ground wire for several seconds. After several seconds the air bag light will blink fast in a 64msec cycle, this means code 41 has been cleared.
So if that didn't make sense here's the short version:
Hints: 5) Once the code is cleared disconnect the wires and close up the TDCL port. And it's gone! Submitted by xxx@******.com Revision 0 Article submitted on 11 Sep 2010 Last modified on 28 Feb 2011 Viewed 6694 times |
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