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Panda pop crashes8/10/2023 Last but not least, the safety redundancy of airbag systems means that if (a) the seat sensor determines someone is in the seat (by weight), unless it is specifically disables by disarming it with the ignition key, the airbag will fire in a collision regardless of which side the impact is on. Diagnosing the actual cluster and the interface between the safety systems and body computer is a bigger pain and best left to a (cheaper, more adept) independent garage. If you apply pressure to the airbag sensors on the front steel crash member behind the bumper and it throws even more fits (with the battery still unattached, doing it with the battery attached might trigger a false collision alert and set off the airbags), it's the sensors. If you disconnect the battery and wait, and then yank about the sensor wiring from the front crash structure and it goes away, it's the wiring. If moving the passenger seat back and forth fixes it, it's the wiring loom under the seat (electrical tape held up for 2 years for me). If so, it's a problem with the wiring of the arming mechanism. The IPC issue is also awkward in that either the cluster isn't reading the signal (which means you need to replace the cluster), the cluster isn't receiving the signal (which means it's just a wiring/connector/sensor fault), or it's receiving a signal that's beyond what it's used to (either the IPC calibration is off, or the sensor/signal calibration is off and since they don't match it's throwing a fit).Īs an off chance, check to see if disabling the passenger airbag with the ignition key resets it. Since everything in the CANBUS system is interconnected, all it's really saying is that 'in our massively interconnected neural network of cables and sensors, somethings awry and I'm not getting the signal I expect'. The CANBUS error is one of those catastrophic until it isn't type of errors. Seen this happen before, and there's a bit of a problem here from my experience.
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