Airbag light after spirited driving - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

drunken_panda · 03-03-2006, 12:43 AM

I was driving hard on a back road. Hard stops, full throttle starts etc. Now my airbag light is on. What do you think might have caused it? Will Autozone reset it for more or do I have to go to the dealer? Or will disconnecting the battery work (I know in previous Toyotas it didn't).

02whiteLE · 03-03-2006, 09:02 AM

I"m still waiting on my owners manual, so don't flame me if I'm wrong, but aren't the airbags and related hardware covered under warranty for longer than the standard warranty? I assume your warranty is already expired, or you woudn't be asking this, right?

drunken_panda · 03-03-2006, 09:04 AM

Yea, I am at 110K miles now, so i would guess its up.

02whiteLE · 03-03-2006, 09:25 AM

Jeez, these people that buy their Camry's and just park them in the garage kill me. Try driving it sometimes.

Cyorke · 03-03-2006, 10:28 AM

Damn you drive a shitload dont you.

The only reasone I can think that it would come on is because one of teh sensors is bad. Especially on mewer generation airbags they dont jsut use a sensor that sets it off in a collision. They use sensors to determine decelration and all kinds of different things. Maybe jsut the hard braking caused one of them to think something was happening.

You can try autozone and hope it doesnt come back on.

drunken_panda · 03-03-2006, 10:34 AM

Driving is great and all, but when you do 32 hr stints at once, it gets old quick. But in the Camry's defense, it is one of the best long drivers I have ever been in, the best being the Previa.

I will try Autozone and see what they say.

***ModifierMR*** · 03-03-2006, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by drunken_panda

Yea, I am at 110K miles now, so i would guess its up.

sorry to go off topic here, but wow 110K on an 04.

Before my Pizza Driver job back in october i had only 22K on my 03 Camry. what the hell do you do for a living?

drunken_panda · 03-03-2006, 03:25 PM

I am a System Admins, before this, my mom used it to commute from Houston to College Station each day (100 miles each way). But now I drive from San Fransisco to Santa Barbara (400 miles each way) quite often.

But I have noticed now that the Passenger Airbag light is now showing that it is off. I checked under the passenger seat and all the wires look good. Autozone will not reset the light for me. The dealer will not reset it with out having a look at it first.

05lim · 03-03-2006, 04:12 PM

i had the same problem, but it was from my friend jumping up and down on the seat. it said that the airbag was off on the dashboard and it said it was off. so i took it to the dealer and they told me it was because the seat was up to high?! anyway, they resetted the damn thing, i think all they did was reset the ecu(thats what the guy told me anyway)

drunken_panda · 03-03-2006, 04:57 PM

Hmm. Sounds good, I might have to find another dealer to reset it. BTW for those interested, you cannot unplug the battery to reset the airbag ECU because it is written to NVRAM that holds its memory until it is manually erased.

drunken_panda · 03-03-2006, 05:39 PM

I've looked everywhere in Santa Barbara and no one will reset it for less than $89. If anyone know someone that can do it in NorCal, CenCal or SoCal, I would love you forever.