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Chrysler Sebring Airbags and Restraints
I am installing a set of front seats out of a '96 Sebring Convert into a different vehicle and need to know how the seat belts work. What confuses me is whether or not the shoulder straps stay loose after they are latched. If they do stay loose what locks them incase of an accident? Are they pyrotechnic? Or, is there a mechanical locking mechanism. Or, do they lock once the vehicle is in motion? Thanks, 3003
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Thanks,
Gerald
I bought a used 96 JXI with a non-working driver seatbelt and discovered after ripping out the center console, that the cause was a shorted harness.
The harness is routed in-between the 2 piece seat track and over time will shortout to the rail. This will not blow the fuse, because in the control module they have a current limiting resistor built in.
Solution is to cut the harness and splice the matching 4 wires back together.
Is that one stray incident or does the Chrysler quality issues still persist??
It does go through a checklist when you start the car. If the computer senses that the airbag circuit is faulted the airbag light in the instrument cluster stays on.
I haven't heard about any issues with the Sebring and failed airbag deployment. You might see if a Google search turns up anything.
I have the same problem. 2003 Sebring LXi conv, that had the airbag lite on when I bought it, from dealer at 16K mi. Dealer fixed it, by replacing tensioner(s). Then over the next 10K mi the problem recurred at least 2 more times, both times within the 36K complete warranty, both times fixed until the next occurence. Fine for about a year and a half. Car now has 42K (4yrs later) on it and the lite has been coming on again for the last several months. The temp fix is to do the slide the seat forward and back a few times then it is fixed for a while..sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few days. Crazy ain't it?
Now the car has developed a coolant leak, and I am taking it in to the Chrysler dealer to deal with this new problem. I plan to mention the airbag lite problem again, as it appears to be a design problem.
You know though, I like the car. It is my wife's car and we only really use it in the summer. I just am worried that these thing are precursors to it's rumored unreliability.
Hope this helps,
Robin
Thanks!