With Cloth Seat Trim
To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbags, airbag curtains, knee blocker, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect the Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS)/negative battery cable assembly from the negative battery post, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is the only sure way to disable the SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag deployment.
When handling a new Occupant Detection Sensor (ODS), it should never be bent, creased, torn, cut or abraded. The ODS should not be handled with or come into contact with hard or sharp-edged tools or objects. Do not allow the ODS to drop more than 2 meters (6.5 feet). Prior to installation, do not sit on, stand on or place boxes, tools or any other foreign object on the ODS. If the ODS adhesive patches become inadvertently adhered to any seat materials or foreign objects prior to proper positioning on the seat cushion, the ODS must be scrapped and replaced with a new unit. Do not modify the seat foam or trim materials of a seat that contains an ODS. Failure to observe these cautions may result in an inoperative ODS, or an ODS that provides inaccurate inputs to the Occupant Restraint Controller (ORC).
- Route the Occupant Detection Sensor (ODS) pigtail wires and the hot melt block through the clearance hole near the back of the seat cushion foam.
- Remove the release paper from the front adhesive patch on the underside of the ODS mat.
- Carefully position the sensor mat on the seat cushion foam with Distances A, B and C as shown in the following table before sticking the adhesive patch down onto the foam.
REFERENCE POINTS EXCEPT SRT SRT Distance A - Front edge of rear crimp channel to center of rear edge of sensor mat. 100 millimeters
(3.93 inches)90 millimeters
(3.54 inches)Distance B - Inside edge of each side crimp channel to nearest edge of sensor mat. 62 millimeters
(2.44 inches)62 millimeters
(2.44 inches)Distance C - Rear edge of front crimp channel to center of front edge of sensor mat. 120 millimeters
(4.72 inches)75 millimeters
(2.95 inches)CAUTION:The adhesive used to secure the ODS to the seat is heat activated and requires that both the adhesive and the material it is applied to be ideally between 21° and 38° C (between 70° and 100° F). Application of the ODS to surfaces below 10° C (50° F) is not recommended as the adhesive becomes too firm to readily adhere. Do not touch or allow the adhesive patches to contact any foreign materials with the release paper removed. Do not attempt to add adhesive materials to the ODS.
- Peel the release paper off of the rear adhesive patch on the underside of the ODS mat.
- One at a time, apply hand pressure (0.8 bar or 12 psi) over each of the adhesive patches of the ODS mat for at least four seconds to activate and adhere the adhesive to the seat cushion foam.
- Confirm the ODS mat is properly positioned on the seat cushion foam.
- Reach under the back of the front seat cushion frame to access, route and connect the ODS pigtail wire and connector to the seat wire harness.
- If equipped, install the heater mat or the heater and ventilation mat onto the seat cushion foam. Refer to PAD, HEATER, INSTALLATION .
- Install the trim onto the front seat cushion. Refer to COVER, SEAT CUSHION, REAR, INSTALLATION .
- Install the passenger side front seat into the vehicle. Refer to SEAT, FRONT, INSTALLATION .
- Connect the negative battery cable. If equipped with an Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS), connect the IBS connector.