Passenger side airbag conversion complete

honer · 24-12-2006, 05:49 PM

So I had a PAB dash laying around that I wanted to drop into the XR8, however it was one of those "Next weekend, when I get time, too busy, can't be bothered" type of jobs.

So I got tonsillites as an early Christmas present and slept all day.. Ended up starting it about 12am during the week (Yay for Holidays)

All in all was not such a hard job. I've heard some horror stories about pulling out the dash of these things, but I didn't let that worry me. The new dash had a few brackets up to the top of the dash broken, so Dad made me some new ones and reinforced with a steel brace to prevent anymore cracking.

Reinforced pedal box while I was there.

Wiring was easy. I took my time and got everything neat and tidy.

Dash is pretty heavy and awkward to maneuver so my advice is to ask for help there. I did it myself and nearly it nearly killed me lol.

Just need a glove box that has the XR8 emblem in it now.

I have some crappy pics (Camera went flat half way through so I didn't managed to record all the stages) but I can post if anyone wants.

snypereb · 24-12-2006, 08:35 PM

Would be good if you had some pics of this mate?

BENT_8 · 24-12-2006, 09:55 PM

Have you tried it to see if the airbag works properly yet?

chich · 24-12-2006, 10:05 PM

Pics would be great..

gthofan · 24-12-2006, 10:19 PM

arnt airbags a once only thing?

honer · 24-12-2006, 10:27 PM

Tried out the airbags ? You mean crash my car into a pole to see if they deploy ?? No, I havn't.

However, the no codes have been thrown. There is no difference between PAB and Non PAB cars. All the wiring is there, the only difference is Non PAB cars have a terminator where the airbag plugs in to tell it there is only 1 airbag, you just remove this and plug in the airbag (battery disconnected of course)

Will post a few pics up for those interested, sorry guys I didn't get too many, because of the camera dieing :(