We hopped in the car for a quick spin and when my wife shut the passenger side door, the airbag light popped on.

"Sidebag ignition circuit Front Passenger" is what popped up on my scanner. I cleared the code and it didn't come right back so...…. I'm guessing a loose/intermittent connection in the door?

I scanned the codes listed at the back of the service manual and couldn't come up with anything, or I missed it.....

Anyone familiar with this code?

Jared

 

Wow, no answer, old post. I am unfamiliar with that code. Searching the forum for AIRBAGS returned this thread. I have noticed, concerning airbags, that while observing photos of crashed Crossfires with serious front end damage, that most of the airbags did not deploy. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

I still haven't fixed whatever it is.

I did grab an airbag module and the door bag from a XF at the wrecking yard though.

Now that I have a DAS system, I will dive into it a little deeper.

Jared

 

I dove into it a little deeper.... DAS provided more information than what I had with my Launch Scanner and gave me a resistance value to shoot for. I was showing 15 ohms resistance when measured at the connector behind the kick panel. Someone else had obviously been in there before because the kick panel was loose and the screw was still in place when I pulled it out. I will pop a washer back on to the screw and hopefully that will secure it.

It turned out to be the connection itself to the "Squib" (explosive). I pulled the connector apart and used a folded piece of paper and contact cleaner to clean the contacts and then I squeezed them together a little tighter.

Plugged it back in and I had ZERO resistance. When I plugged the kick panel connector back in, the resistance was 3 ohms which is halfway between the 2-5 ohms it wants.

All good now, fault was cleared and didn't immediately return like it was over and over again.

Hopefully this information is useful for someone else..... although I didn't find anything in the search box that duplicated this problem and/or fault code.

Jared

Annoying!!

Good info!!!

Side bag connector

Kick panel connector

Broken tab.... GRRRRR.....

Plugged back in

Dynamite!!!

TA-DA!!!