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Old 04-23-2021, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn View Post
notice that the airbag in the video has a shorting bar to prevent accidental detonation when the airbag is not installed, possibly the connector does the same thing and the repaired connector is not doing the job of opening the shorting bar (in which case you'd read a short across the wires (pin through the insulation).
I was trying to illustrate this shorting splice in my previous post. If the plastic parts of the plug locking don't separate the shorting splices from the pins there will be active fault code for too low resistance.
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