The Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), found on 1995–98 vehicles, is designed to be used along with the front seat belts to reduce the risk or amount of injury by deploying one or both air bags during certain frontal collisions.
| Fig. 1: The driver's side air bag inflator module is
mounted to the steering wheel
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The air bag system is made up of left and right front impact sensors, air bag modules for the driver (in the steering wheel) and front passenger (right side instrument panel above the glove compartment), SRS diagnosis unit (with a safing sensor) and a SRS warning lamp in the instrument cluster.
| Fig. 2: There is also a passenger side air bag module
located above the glove compartment
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The SRS system is designed to deploy when the safing sensor, along with either or both of the impact sensors simultaneously activate while the ignition is ON. The sensors will activate during front or near-frontal impacts of moderate to severe force.
