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Manual Description(SRS) AIR BAG” and SEAT BELT PRE-TENSIONER” 2, sQUEAK AND RATTLE TROUBLE DIAGNOSES 4, dUPLICATE THE NOISE AND TEST DRIVE 5, lOCATE THE NOISE AND IDENTIFY THE.
Generic Squeak Rattle Troubleshooting 6, oVERHEAD CONSOLE (FRONT AND REAR) 7, lOWER INSTRUMENT PANEL RH AND GLOVE, precautions for Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) AIR BAG” SEAT.
The Supplemental Restraint System such as AIR BAG” and SEAT BELT PRE-TENSIONER”, used along, with a front seat belt, helps to reduce the risk or severity of injury to the driver and front passenger certain, system uses the seat belt switches to determine the front air bag deployment, and may only deploy one front, air bag, depending on the severity of a collision and whether the front occupants belted unbelted.
Information necessary to service the system safely is included in the SRS and SB section Service Manual, to avoid rendering the SRS inoperative, which could increase the risk of personal injury death, improper maintenance, including incorrect removal and installation of the SRS, can lead to personal injury caused by unintentional activation of the system, do not use electrical test equipment on any circuit related to the SRS unless instructed.
The actual shapes of Kent-Moore tools may differ from those of special service tools illustrated here, sQUEAK AND RATTLE TROUBLE DIAGNOSES, interview the customer if possible, to determine the conditions that exist when the noise occurs, customer's comments; refer to EI-9, "Diagnostic Worksheet".
Conditions that exist when noise occurs, obtain all the facts and conditions that exist when the noise occurs (or does not occur), if there is more than one noise in the vehicle, be sure to diagnose and repair the noise that customer, after identifying the type of noise, isolate the noise in terms of its characteristics.
Are provided so the customer, service adviser and technician are all speaking same language when, squeak —(Like tennis shoes clean floor), squeak characteristics include the light contact/fast movement/brought on by road conditions/hard surfaces = higher pitch noise/softer surfaces = lower pitch noises/edge surface = chirping, creak—(Like walking on an old wooden floor).
Creak characteristics include firm contact/slow movement/twisting with rotational movement/pitch, dependent on materials/often brought by activity, rattle characteristics include the fast repeated contact/vibration similar movement/loose parts/missing, knock —(Like a knock door).
Knock characteristics include hollow sounding/sometimes repeating/often brought by driver action, tick characteristics include gentle contacting of light materials/loose components/can be caused by driver, thump characteristics include softer knock/dead sound often brought by activity, buzz characteristics include high frequency rattle/firm contact.
Often the degree of acceptable noise level will vary depending upon the person, judge as acceptable may be very irritating customer, weather conditions, especially humidity and temperature, may have a great effect noise level, dUPLICATE THE NOISE AND TEST DRIVE.
If possible, drive the vehicle with the customer until the noise is duplicated, the Diagnostic Worksheet regarding the conditions or location of the noise, duplicate the same conditions when you confirm repair, tap or push/pull around the area where the noise appears be coming from.
Use a floor jack recreate vehicle twist”, at idle, apply engine load (electrical load, half-clutch on M/T model, drive position A/T model), raise the vehicle on a hoist and hit a tire with rubber hammer, drive the vehicle and attempt to duplicate the conditions the customer states exist when noise occurs.
After verifying the customer concern or symptom, check ASIST for Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) related, lOCATE THE NOISE AND IDENTIFY THE ROOT CAUSE, narrow down the noise to a general area, (Chassis Ear: Engine Ear: J-39565 mechanic's stethoscope).
Narrow down the noise to a more specific area and identify the cause noise by, removing the components in the area that you suspect the noise coming from, tapping or pushing/pulling the component that you suspect causing noise.