Air bag recall? Please refresh my memory.

[Ed Kellock]

There's always the possibility of that corroded/oxidized battery cable
splice in the passenger footwell.

Ed


On 7/7/06, Phil Rose <pjrose at frontiernet.net> wrote:
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> At 5:06 PM -0600 7/6/06, Ed Kellock wrote:
> >Low battery voltage can trigger an error in the airbag software.
>
> Hmmm, yes that is certainly consistent with my current (no pun)
> situation; today I am replacing the car battery, which "died" during
> the past week. I'd been having no obvious problems with the battery
> (never had to jump start) when the AB light began to came on again
> last month, but now I realize there was/is a problem that has been
> causing the battery to be drawn down. Last week I noticed that the CC
> (channel 11) readings showed an unusually large drop in voltage
> whenever the CC fan was operating. So perhaps a bad CC fan or
> alternator problem. I'm hoping the new battery will get me through
> the track event next week (Watkins Glen),  and then I'll start to dig
> into the electrical issue(s).
>
> Phil
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