Air bag warning light staying on

[Betoner]

After I opened 2 plastic covers I could see 2 t30,one on each side. Unscrew them, and you can open airbag section. There are three cables conected to it, black and orange contact and one normal black cable.
Use flat screwdriver to open yellow plastic lock on contacts (pull yellow lock away from airbag), pull contacts away with hands, with care. Disconnect black cable also,put the airbag on safe place.

 

[Betoner]

Your wheels should be straight,also your steering wheel. You can even make some marks with pencil.
Unscrew 19 bolt in the middle. Slam with both hands on left and right side of steering wheel to loosen it up, put the steering wheel away.

Now it is time to remove black plastic, two pieces,one is up and one is down. There are 3 philips screws,two on front side and one below. These two pieces are also connected with some clips.

After removing black plastic you can see that spiral cable is connected with four philips screws. Unscrew them, remove spiral cable amd two connectors,that are below. Put in new cable in the same position, connect it. Fix it with screws,put on again two plastic pieces.

New spiral cable has orange plastic clip,that is protecting from rotation. Remove it and connect all things in reverse order. Enjoy your driving without red airbag light on panel

Torque for steering wheel is 50Nm, t30 is 8.8 Nm or tight with feeling

 

[Tractionman]

Good write up Betoner, on a job many wouldn't relish because of air bag removal. Well done !

 

[toolsplus]

My LC120 has about 135,000 miles now
I've just had to replace this ABS sensor behind the steering-wheel
good write-up...