Seat swap - passenger seat SRS light comes on now

[Will_K]

I have a 2007 sport which came with high back cloth seats and swapped a set from a 2006 Limited with low back leather seats - with power and heated seats on the front bucket seats, but for the time being I'm just using the manual bases from the 2007 sport because rewiring would take more than an evening.

Anyway, now the passenger airbag inactive light comes on after I finished the passenger seat swap yesterday.

I was actaully a seat engineer for a couple years so I'm generally familiar with what the sensors are. There may be a pressure sensor to detect the weight of a passenger, a position sensor because the airbag can't deploy if the seat is too far forward, and a seatbelt sensor to inactivate the airbag if the seatbelt isn't in use. I don't know this seat specifically to know if these are present, my knowledge is based on 2012+ Dodge Journey seats.

I don't think they added a side airbag in the seat for 2007, did they? I'd have noticed a yellow connector since that's what they use for anything airbag related.

I think it should just be the seatbelt sensor, which should be the same connector and pinouts, shouldn't it? I might have missed something bolting the seat pan onto the base possibly... Or is there a different pinout?

I've got a CD with shop manuals on order from rockauto.com, will that come with wiring diagrams I'd need to look into this stuff?

 

[JRB]

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07 may be one of those years that is missing since it was a transition year to the kk, and then would just refer to the 06 as they are quite close to the 07's.

No side airbag on the seats as far as I've seen.

The seat has a bladder with a sensor in it to detect turning the airbag on or off, they do need re-calibrating from time to time if they don't function normally. They seem to come all over the place from the factory, 40-80 lbs of force (give or take some).

As far as your light is concerned, I believe the module can recognize which airbag sensors were programmed to it. Beings it may be just that, if you have your old seat I would swap over any of the parts you can from the 07 seat into the 06 seat you just put in.

If you have an airbag dash light on due to it, it will require an in depth scanner, or a dealer to re-flash it for you.

 

[Will_K]

I resolved this, by the way, by just switching the seat base wire harness back in from the original seat. Some day I might try figuring out how to get the power seat and heat working, and I've got the harness and motorized base frame in case I get to it before I expire. But I probably have bigger priorities enough to last until I don't last.

 

[04Liberty]

Heat is a PITA but the power function is easy, I did this to a 2004. Tap off the power and ground from the driver's side (it's there even if the seat base is manual) and run under the carpet to the passenger side. Just need a circuit breaker to energize the circuit. There's a pretty good write up that I used, the pictures were still good back in 2012 but unfortunately Photobucket screwed that all up: https://www.jeepkj.com/threads/how-to-add-leather-or-power-seats-to-a-kj.25651/