airbag light caused by bad spiral coil

I have seen multiple posts about many people having thier airbag lights come on a few seconds after starting their engines. I just took mine to the dealer and sure enough, it was the "spiral coil" located in the steering column taht everyone talks about. The news that I wanted to share is that it is completely covered by a 5 year, 60,000 mile warranty! It would have been a few hundred dollars if not for the warranty.

 

It is a defect... mine was over 60,000 miles, so no warantee.. It was the ONLY failure on my '05 that I had to pay for... unless the rear springs that I added air bags to stop bottoming out counts!

 

Other manufacturers seem to mostly call this item the "clockspring". I wonder why Toyota insists on calling it (albeit accurately) "spiral coil".

 

They don't - they refer to it as a Spiral Cable. The dealer must have F'ked it up.

 

^^ x2

 

I have this sane issue right now. Does anyone know if the air bag will still deploy?

 

I have this issue too.

The dealer said it might not deploy, but they couldn't say 100%.

He said it would probably cost around $300.00 to fix, since I'm outside of warranty.

I still haven't fixed it yet. I'm just trying to avoid accidents until I do...

 

If your air bag light is on your air bags will NOT deploy if you are in an accident the system is shut off.

 

pretty sure mine is the same thing and I am out of warranty...

 

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Just make sure you buckle up. I have a broken spiral cable also, haven't fixed it yet.

 

Toyota warranties the air bag systems for 5 year 60K miles....if that helps any.

 

Toyota calls it an Airbag Squib, not a clockspring.

 

They want to change out my wire harness with a new one....................

 

Same thing

 

Here is a link with pictures showing the (Air Bag,Steering Pad,Squib) and the (Spiral Cable, Clock Spring) looks like and where they are located. http://images.google.com/imgres?img...=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&tbs=isch:1

 

That is exactly what I was told... and about what I remember paying.

 

Hey i have a 2006 and my light is on. I just got back from the dealer and they confirmed everything on here. I would like to add a couple of things though. The dealer told me %100 that the bags will NOT deploy if the light is on during a collision, however the other side of the coin is that the dealer told me that a power surge or other anomalie like that could deploy the air bags while drivng.

Also i am in canada and the quote i got to fix mine was $450 for the parts and two hours labour at $93 an hour. looking at about $550 for the whole deal