2008 New Truck Problems

[eurobug60]

Ok here i go. I just installed new piaa driving lights and everything went as planned almost. before i did anything i disconnected

the battery so nuthing went wrong. so here is the problem when i put the pos and neg cabbles back on the battery the horn doesnt work and a

message says service air bag. Everything else works good. i checked the fuses and there all ok. please if you can tell me what i should do before i take it back in the shop.

the truck has about 3,500 miles so its pretty new. 2008 gmc sierra gas

[BuckFeverZ]

Perhaps you accidentally bumped one of the air bag sensors up front when you were installing the lights?? Doubtful but you never know.

[eurobug60]

Perhaps you accidentally bumped one of the air bag sensors up front when you were installing the lights?? Doubtful but you never know.

 

 

i dont know what it could be, it worked ok yesterday and i didnt do anything today.

[Bucknut]

Ok here i go. I just installed new piaa driving lights and everything went as planned almost. before i did anything i disconnected

the battery so nuthing went wrong. so here is the problem when i put the pos and neg cabbles back on the battery the horn doesnt work and a

message says service air bag. Everything else works good. i checked the fuses and there all ok. please if you can tell me what i should do before i take it back in the shop.

the truck has about 3,500 miles so its pretty new. 2008 gmc sierra gas

 

 

First thing that I would do is try to uninstall the new lights to see if the problem clears itself...

 

If so , then maybe a call to PIAA would be in order to see if they can help...Not sure about the horn, but I know the air bag as well as any other sensor activated led's can go off with any form of electrical noise passed through ground..

 

If things do go back to normal, try a different ground point with the lights..

[DofD]

Yeah, disconnect the battery again, unhook the lights, reconnect the battery and see if the messages appear.

 

There are a number of grounding zones on the trucks, some defined as clean and some as dirty. If you're grounding to a clean zone and making it dirty, then that will mess with anything else grounded to that zone.

[eurobug60]

Yeah, disconnect the battery again, unhook the lights, reconnect the battery and see if the messages appear.

 

There are a number of grounding zones on the trucks, some defined as clean and some as dirty. If you're grounding to a clean zone and making it dirty, then that will mess with anything else grounded to that zone.

 

fixed the air bag problem, it was the cab upper console that wasnt pluged in. One problem down and one to go. i cant figure out why the horn wont work. thanks everyone.