2000+ Tahoe Air bag light

[yfzsandracer]

I recently installed a new leather seat cover on my tahoe and about 3 days later the air bag warning light showed up. This may be a coincidence but it may not be. I checked under the seat and all the wires seem to be hooked up and I don't think I unhooked any wires in the seat when I installed the new cover. I had a dealer hook it up to a scanner and he said the side air bag showed a problem but not sure which side airbag. The vehicle has 89,000 miles on it. Any help would be great. I took it to our dealer before for transmission work and it was a really bad experience and they are a very dishonest unprofessional GM service center so I don't want to take it back to them.

 

Thanks

 

Kyle

[GM-Tech]

Knowing the code would go a long way to figuring this out. If it was a loop shorted then it could be that you didn't get a CPA/TPA back in right.

 

CPA is "connector position assurance" and TPA is "terminal position assurance". All air bag connectors have what's called a shorting bar in them. When you disconnect a connector, this piece shorts across the terminals to help prevent accidental deployment of the air bag.

 

These CPA's and TPA's are often the component that lifts this shorting bar off the terminals when everything is hooked up properly. If that clip's not in place correctly (or at all), that would be a problem. On some connectors, the mechanism that lifts the shorting bar is built into the mating connector, but without know where the problem is, it's hard to say what's wrong.

[yfzsandracer]

Thanks for the info. I will check the connectors again and then check it on a scanner again and get the exact trouble code it is showing. I'll post it here asap. thanks.