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The front driver and passenger seat bottom leather covers from The Seat Shop arrived Friday.
I spent a good part of Saturday installing both seat covers.
I think they came out looking pretty good.
But, as usual for me, the project was not without it's drama.
After I got everything wrapped up, I started the Avalanche and immediately was treated to a Service Airbag error message and a flashing Bubblegum Man light.
After popping on my scanner I got a code that pointed to the passenger presence sensor.
No big deal, right.
So, this morning I pulled the passenger seat back out and went back over all of my work and all of the under seat wiring.
Everything checked out, but when I put the seat back in, I still had the same error.
Out came the seat again and I proceeded to unwrap all of the wiring bundles and I began to check every wire at every location for continuity.
I finally found a poor connection at one of the pins on the connector under the seat that connects the seat to the truck.
And it was the absolute last wire to be checked.
Every other wire and connector checked out fine.
Well, at least I now have a complete wiring diagram of all of the wires and connectors under the passenger seat.
I then carefully disassembled the wiring connector and pulled out the offending connector pin.
There was no obvious sign of a broken wire, but I narrowed the break down to the last 1/4" of wire right before the connector pin.
A little solder job and some careful reshaping of the connector pin and I was able to get everything back together without breaking anything else.
Whew.
All of my wiring is now complete and secure and I have no more airbag errors.
That wasn't how I had planned to spend my Sunday morning and afternoon, but it's done.
I spent a good part of Saturday installing both seat covers.
I think they came out looking pretty good.
But, as usual for me, the project was not without it's drama.
After I got everything wrapped up, I started the Avalanche and immediately was treated to a Service Airbag error message and a flashing Bubblegum Man light.
After popping on my scanner I got a code that pointed to the passenger presence sensor.
No big deal, right.
So, this morning I pulled the passenger seat back out and went back over all of my work and all of the under seat wiring.
Everything checked out, but when I put the seat back in, I still had the same error.
Out came the seat again and I proceeded to unwrap all of the wiring bundles and I began to check every wire at every location for continuity.
I finally found a poor connection at one of the pins on the connector under the seat that connects the seat to the truck.
And it was the absolute last wire to be checked.
Every other wire and connector checked out fine.
Well, at least I now have a complete wiring diagram of all of the wires and connectors under the passenger seat.
I then carefully disassembled the wiring connector and pulled out the offending connector pin.
There was no obvious sign of a broken wire, but I narrowed the break down to the last 1/4" of wire right before the connector pin.
A little solder job and some careful reshaping of the connector pin and I was able to get everything back together without breaking anything else.
Whew.
All of my wiring is now complete and secure and I have no more airbag errors.
That wasn't how I had planned to spend my Sunday morning and afternoon, but it's done.