I need to know how to take airbags out of a 95 cavalier the one in the steering wheel and the one in the dash?
Thanx
First of all..... completely remove your battery from your car and let it sit for at least a couple of hours just to be safe. (they are only desinged to be functional for around 40 min after the battery is gone.... but if you set one off it can kill you so the longer you let it sit the better)
I've never actually done this on a J-body before... but I know how to get to them..
You should just be able to unscrew the bolts on the steering wheel that hold the airbag / horn on.... they are on the back side and once you pull the center part off... you should be able to fiqure the rest out. You might just wan't to get an aftermarket steering wheel.
As for the one in the dash..... you should be able to get to it once the dash is removed.... it says "DO NOT TOUCH".. or something like that in big letters on it.
Do this at your own risk though..... and doing it might be illeagle... and you definatly can't sell the car that way in mosts states.... Especially if you don't tell the person who buys it.
btw.... Why do you "need to know" how to do this anyway?
honestly i don't trust air bags thank you for your help but i will probably only remove the one in the steering wheel though...
Errm....well, if you get in a wreck in a cavalier, the airbag probably wouldent make a lot of difference. Wear a seatbelt and have life insurance.
Garret Schardt wrote:honestly i don't trust air bags thank you for your help but i will probably only remove the one in the steering wheel though...
I should really say these 2 things.....
Double check everything and make sure you know how to correctly remove them before you do it (look in a haynes manual or something)... don't just take my word for anything.... I don't wan't you to get hurt because I ended up being wrong about something.... They are actually VERY DANGEROUSE to be messing with.
Also.... I felt the same way about airbags too.... When I first bout a car with airbags... I used to look down at the steering wheel like it could attack me at any moment......
But to be honest....... If you end up getting in an accident thats bad enough for your airbags to deploy.... your car will most likely be totaled anyway.... so any damage done to the car by the airbags deploying will be moot to say the least....
Is it a good idea? ...... NO.... but it's not really any different than installing an aftermarket (airbagless) steering wheel like so many people here have done either.
Weebel wrote:but it's not really any different than installing an aftermarket (airbagless) steering wheel like so many people here have done either.
besides the fact that the capability is there for a safety feature and you choose to remove it, right?
go to autozone and buy a haynes or chiltons manual....they have instructions on how to properly remove your bags. IMO it is too dangerous to just mess around with, without doing it properly.
also you need to realize that if you disable one bag, the other won't work either.
and are you going to put an aftermarket wheel in the car? cause if you dont youll just have a gaping hole in the front of your wheel and that might be more of a hazard than leaving the bag in.
Basically......
Leave it stock... or put an aftermarket wheel in there....... it's your car man...... but as long as you wear your seat belt and keep your hands on the wheel correctly...... it wont really hurt ya any.......... ya it's most likely gunna burn ya a little but thats nothing compared to smashing your head into the steering wheel or dash.
and to answer this....
dirty elf wrote:Weebel wrote:but it's not really any different than installing an aftermarket (airbagless) steering wheel like so many people here have done either.
besides the fact that the capability is there for a safety feature and you choose to remove it, right?
I understand what you mean... but I still don't see how one isn't more or less stupid than the other as far as safety is considered.
Also... would'nt just cutting the wires going to the activation switch in the front of the car keep them from working? All you should need to do is disable one since they all need to be activated for the airbags to deploy.
Weebel wrote:Also... would'nt just cutting the wires going to the activation switch in the front of the car keep them from working? All you should need to do is disable one since they all need to be activated for the airbags to deploy.
i would want to be very careful with something that is a safety feature in the car. there's no reason to half ass something like this. there is a good chance that the car will be sold later on, and you want to be able to reinstall the bags for better resale value (some states wont even allow you to sell the car w/o bags)
I would leave it in... the airbag saved my forehead from becoming one with the wheel/dash.
And my passenger's head from the window.
I wouldn't remove them if you payed me too.
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Could just unplug the SIR module under the Pass. seat. The airbags in both of my cars, my sister car, and my moms car have been disabled. The reason for this was mainly because if the bag went off and my mom or sister were driving it would do them great harm. The are short and have to sit close to the wheel. The current reason for them being disabled in my 02 is because i dont have a dash anymore, and i hate airbags.
Although doing anything will make the airbag light in your dash stay on...
I'm not going to disable mine either...... but I can't help but to think of ways to do it.
make sure you ground yourself while you do it too if you dont your one static spark from a closed casket funeral.
I just cant drive 55
hey man. i will agree with you. im not really a big fan of air bags. but mine are enabled as of now. but over this winter, im putting a tv by the passenger airbag, so its going to be getting removed. so its going to go anyway. so this actually helped me also.
Weebel wrote:Although doing anything will make the airbag light in your dash stay on...
I'm not going to disable mine either...... but I can't help but to think of ways to do it.
Your air bag light wont stay light if you do it properly, i.e. put a resistor color code red red gold gold in line of the airbag wiring. Me and Satchmoe removed the driver side airbag from my car to put a aftermarket steering wheel. Thats why i know it works
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The removing the battery part, we didnt do however, we did remove the Fuse for the bags and didn't have any problems. But remove the battery and the fuse just in case (you never know).
As far as Airbags being safe thats if they actually deploy. I got into a car accident exactly one month ago and they didnt go off, and yes the truck I was in, is totaled, thats what happens when you get hit by a bus and a Land Rover within seconds apart =/. I rather stick to just seat belts than relying on those things
Thats a 2.2 ohm resistor right?
Alright thanks for everyones input and yes I planed on putting in a aftermarket steering wheel as a matter of fact I got it for free from a friend Grant GT is the wheel.... I prolly won't be doing this for a lil while though.. Thanks again
mitdr774 wrote: The airbags in both of my cars, my sister car, and my moms car have been disabled. The reason for this was mainly because if the bag went off and my mom or sister were driving it would do them great harm.
Why not just pull the brakes off the car while your at it? They could randomly lock up and cause them to crash. You should proobally look into removing the steering as well, when yout ake the key out and trun the wheel the steering column locks into place, you wouldn't that to malfunction and casue them to crash either.
on a side note, I'm really surprised, there are some dumb mother @!#$s on this site but WOW. The ignorance is amazing.
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It's ironic that years ago, there were no airbags.
They only had lap belts way back in the day too with no shoulder belt.
I've been driving for about 30 years now and have seen things come and go in the world of cars.
I've disabled my airbags because I've got an aftermarket steering wheel. I've done this to all of my cars with or without airbags.
I do use my seatbelts and figure if they don't save my life like they did in the '60s and '70's, then it's my time to go.
Btw, I still don't wear a helmet when riding my mountain bike. I never have and never will.
I couldn't tell you how many thousands of miles I've been on a bicycle or mountain bike.
If it wasn't for insurance companies and lawyers, we wouldn't have all the safety nazi's telling what we can or can't do with what we own.
Ever see the tag on audio cables that say it's a danger to handle the cable because it has lead content while warning you of the health consequences of handling it?
It's rather ridiculous the way things are going with this society.
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Thank you Dave and JBO! 
90% of the time yes.
I'm not denouncing the use of airbags just all of the safety nazis that think it's imperitave to have while driving a car.
50 kids a year die because they didn't have bike helmets and safety nazis now say that all of the rest of the millions of kids need to wear them to save their lives in a fall. See the point here and the percentages? That's my point.
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Thank you Dave and JBO!
Misnblu wrote:90% of the time yes.
I'm not denouncing the use of airbags just all of the safety nazis that think it's imperitave to have while driving a car.
50 kids a year die because they didn't have bike helmets and safety nazis now say that all of the rest of the millions of kids need to wear them to save their lives in a fall. See the point here and the percentages? That's my point.
But what if that was one of your 50 kids who didnt wear a helmet and died? so whats that say about your percentages then?
Plain and simple, you need them. Im a fireman/EMT. Ive seen plenty of accidents to tell you how much airbags help over harm. Ive seen faces wedged into steering wheels to the point of having to cut the steering wheel to get their head out. That car didnt have the airbag in the wheel anymore. another was a passenger on an 06 silverado, head bounced off the dash, even after the seat belt gas powered retensioner popped. their head still hit the dash and went down to the bone. but hey its your choice. when anyone rides in my car they dont have that choice. its seatbelt and airbag regardless.
Ill throw this out there ahead of time because someone is bound to say, well my friend lived because he was ejected or because his airbag didnt go off. well that is a RARE ocassion that one safety feature doesnt save you and the back up fails to save you as well.
Well ill say im not a fan of airbags and im kinda on the fence on whether they are good or bad. But i was in a very low speed acident and caused very little damage to the car and yet my bags went off and most of my injuries came from the air bag. I dont like them but i guess we need to keep them.
Misnblu wrote:90% of the time yes.
I'm not denouncing the use of airbags just all of the safety nazis that think it's imperitave to have while driving a car.
50 kids a year die because they didn't have bike helmets and safety nazis now say that all of the rest of the millions of kids need to wear them to save their lives in a fall. See the point here and the percentages? That's my point.
there isnt a law on bike helmests so its kinda a whole diffrent animal. airbags have caused a large drop in driver deaths since they started implementing them. if you want to take it back you might as well remove your seatbelts as well because cars back in the days never had seatbelts. some cars back in the day had a crank to start them. its not about saftey nazi's as it is more about modern technology. if you were sick would you go to the hospital and just go. well grandpa used to just take a swig a wiskey and bite on a leather belt for anesteshia?
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