Frog Rubicon

Pressure switch or not, when a airbag is defective, il will open anyway.

xblazerman

Before I bought an 08,I had looked at an 07. The salesman told me that the passenger airbag was controlled by a switch on the dash.I was going by what he said,I never bothered to look because I wasn't interested in that Jeep.Sorry if I caused any confusion.

TBJK

don't worry about it man. Salesmen mainly will tell you what you want to hear

jeff@zina.com

I had asked for more information on the passenger airbag deployment and he told me he was running through some whoop-de-doos (his word, I magine it's like a motocross track) and the bag deployed. Scared the crap out of him and he drove back to the trail head and drove slowly to the dealer. The dealer wouldn't believe his story, but they found no other trigger such as a crushed air can or any indication of impact and apparently called the factory rep. They ended up calling it defective and replacing it under warranty, and the mechanic said he has only once ever seen an airbag deploy without an impact and it was in a parked vehicle with nobody in it. He said it must happen with a defective switch or bad assembly that snuck through.

This apparently happend to the JK last year, I thought it was recent, and the owner said he's been through the same trail a hundred times with no problems. Chalk it up to the Jeep Gods just toying with us...

Thanks,

Jeff

voodoojk

i have not heard of this on a jk...but i do remember reading in one of the off road mags that their Chevy truck deployed the side air bag while off road. Some vehicles ( full size Chevy this time) have the air bags activate if the vehicle is off camber to a certain degree...i think they since corrected this because the bags were going off!

justinstoffregen

weird................

TINMAN080

I've attended GM airbag school and have worked on early to mid 70's GM vehicles WITH AIR BAGS! They have been around for a LONG time. GM engineering actually produced a run of cars as test subjects in the mid 70's that were being followed for histories as late as the early 90's. Anyway, back to the subject at hand. An air bag can deploy if the control module is defective. The airbag deployment is an end result of a sequence normally initiated by an impact of up to 30 degrees from the centerline of the vehicle in the front. If you impact the vehicle beyond the design perimeter values it won't deploy. Unwanted deployment on airbags was a primary design feature of the supplemental restraint systems. Believe me if you have an unwanted deployment there is a flaw in a component, Improper service methods or a lightening strike somewhere close An airbag system can be ''fooled'' into reading a sudden stop or ''jar'' as an impact deserving a deployment. This is what most unwanted deployments are caused by. The system self- diagnoses every ignition cycle, so a condition that can cause an unwanted deployment normally throws an airbag lite and code. Really rough off-roading can fool the system and blow a bag. I fixed a Riviera one time that hit a dog and bent the license plate- blew both bags. Fixed a Hyundai- NO damage found- hit pothole and blew the bags. Anything is possible on 4 tires......

dyolfknip

There was a post and a video from another forum where a guy set off his side air bags while wheeling.

It can happen.

wrnglrguy

To answer the question above...there is no control or pressure switch on mine. It is just always "on" as far as I can tell. My wife's Pathfinder has a pressure switch in the seat, becuase if there is no weight in the Passenger seat, the indicator lights up saying the airbag is "off". I see nothing like that on my JK.