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WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury during and following any seat belt or child restraint anchor service,
carefully inspect all seat belts, buckles, mounting hardware, retractors, tether straps, and anchors for proper
installation, operation, or damage. Replace any belt that is cut, frayed, or torn. Straighten any belt that is
twisted. Tighten any loose fasteners. Replace any belt that has a damaged or ineffective buckle or retractor.
Replace any belt that has a bent or damaged latch plate or anchor plate. Replace any child restraint anchor
or the unit to which the anchor is integral that has been bent or damaged. Never attempt to repair a seat belt
or child restraint component. Always replace damaged or ineffective seat belt and child restraint components
with the correct, new and unused replacement parts listed in the Chrysler Mopar® Parts Catalog.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with side curtain airbags, disable the
Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) before attempting any Occupant Restraint Controller (ORC) diagnosis
or service. The ORC contains a rollover sensor, which enables the system to deploy the side curtains in the
event of a vehicle rollover event. If an ORC is accidentally rolled during service while still connected to battery
power, the side curtain airbags will deploy. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable, then
wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or service. This is
the only sure way to disable the SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in accidental airbag
deployment.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, disable the Supplemental Restraint
System (SRS) before attempting any steering wheel, steering column, airbag, seat belt tensioner, impact sensor,
or instrument panel component diagnosis or service. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground)
cable, then wait two minutes for the system capacitor to discharge before performing further diagnosis or
service. This is the only sure way to disable the SRS. Failure to take the proper precautions could result in
accidental airbag deployment.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury on vehicles equipped with airbags, before performing any welding
operations disconnect and isolate the battery negative (ground) cable and disconnect all wire harness
connectors from the Occupant Restraint Controller (ORC). Failure to take the proper precautions could result
in accidental airbag deployment and other possible damage to the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)
circuits and components.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, do not attempt to dismantle an airbag unit or tamper with its in ator.
Do not puncture, incinerate, or bring into contact with electricity. Do not store at temperatures exceeding 93° C
(200° F). An airbag in ator unit may contain sodium azide and potassium nitrate. These materials are poisonous
and extremely ammable. Contact with acid, water, or heavy metals may produce harmful and irritating gases
(sodium hydroxide is formed in the presence of moisture) or combustible compounds. An airbag in ator unit
may also contain a gas canister pressurized to over 17.24 kPa (2500 psi).
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury when handling a seat belt tensioner retractor, proper care should be
exercised to keep ngers out from under the retractor cover and away from the seat belt webbing where it exits
from the retractor cover.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, replace all Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) components only
with parts speci ed in the Chrysler Mopar® Parts Catalog. Substitute parts may appear interchangeable, but
internal differences may result in inferior occupant protection.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury, the fasteners, screws, and bolts originally used for the Supplemental
Restraint System (SRS) components must never be replaced with any substitutes. These fasteners have special
coatings and are speci cally designed for the SRS. Any time a new fastener is needed, replace it with the correct
fasteners provided in the service package or speci ed in the Chrysler Mopar® Parts Catalog.
WARNING: To avoid serious or fatal injury when a steering column has an airbag unit attached, never place the
column on the oor or any other surface with the steering wheel or airbag unit face down.
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