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2011 SE, Airbag light after replacing door


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I replaced both of my passenger side doors from a donor car from 2012.  Same engine and seemingly same options.  Do I need to take it to a dealer to have it flashed?  Both doors were kind of caved in after a co-worker backed into my vehicle.  I had no airbag lights before swapping the doors, the lights have been on since.

 

 

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Only the front doors contain impact sensors.

 

Possibly the replacement door has a defective sensor, wiring, or connector.

 

Did you do the door replacement with the battery disconnected?

 

Has the battery been disconnected since the swap was completed?

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The battery was not disconnected when we swapped the doors but I have an extra battery and did swap it to test.  The battery has been removed twice, but not for more than a minute or so.  Is there a reset procedure?  I know on my wife's Dodge Journey, the reset procedure is to remove the battery completely and then touch the negative and positive cables together for so many seconds.  Then re-install the battery.

 

It honestly didn't even dawn on me to disconnect the battery when doing a door swap.  I guess I could pull the impact sensor out of the old door and install it in the new door.  

 

Is the impact sensor a one-time use kind of thing?  The car I got the door from was a front end collision.  The air bags didn't deploy though.

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If you can get your hands on an advanced code reader (not a dealer tool), you  can read the code to find the source of the error code.  You can reset the code too, and it may not come back if you're lucky.  There could a number of causes for your error code, none of us can diagnose it from our chairs.  Any mechanic (backyard /weekend mechanics too) will have the advanced code reader, which reads & resets ABS and SRS codes, I even have one.

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I have a Urich ZR8 and have checked for codes.  Mine isn't the base model and has quite a few features for the price but it doesn't read SRS codes.  I'm not asking for everyone else to diagnose my problems, I'm just needing to be pointed in the general direction and so far, you all have done that.  I still have my old doors and am going to swap out my impact sensor as it was working fine before I replaced the doors.  Thank you all for your help so far.  If this doesn't work I'll look into borrowing or finding someone with a more advanced scanner that can tell me exactly what my SRS error is.

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