Originally Posted by
elbailey23
So I spoke with a higher up service manager from the dealership yesterday and he was helpful. He seemed very concerned why they drove the car and did not actually test the srs system. He admitted that they did NOT hook it up to the Star scanner and that their dealership had to borrow/rent one from another dealership anytime they needed one. He stated he would refund me and look into getting the scanner. He mentioned they had another crossfire there also that had the recalled airbag swapped and that the SRS light also came on soon after. Uh oh, looks like we may have some bigger problems with this recall.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the replacement unit built for market claims has a line (or five) of code that doesn't jive with the OEM airbag control unit, and it's popping the code. With the ever-increasing complexity of systems in cars these days, it's a very common problem if the past-point-of-fit (PPOF) component is going into a 10+ year-old car.
A major supplier for lane-departure warning systems for Nissan struggles with this issue a LOT. I'm one of the guys that approves the Parts Submission Warrants for these SW changes, and ten times out of nine there are issues detected downstream when the factories overseas have to do PPOF replacements.
TL,DR version -- he needs to borrow Star-DAS to fix it. But it's fixable.