Removal And Installation: Removal
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.
- Disconnect and isolate the negative battery cable.
- Remove the driver air bag from the steering wheel. Refer to AIR BAG, DRIVER, REMOVAL AND INSTALLATION
.NOTE:
If equipped with Blue And Me steering wheel switch pod in the left steering wheel spoke the pigtail wire harness and connector for the speed control switch pod and the Blue And Me switch pod is shared. Both switch pods are removed and replaced only as a single unit.
- Using a trim stick or another suitable wide flat-bladed tool, carefully pry the steering wheel bezel (1) and disengage it from the steering wheel (2).
- Disengage the switch pigtail wire harness from the retainers within the hub cavity of the steering wheel.
- Disconnect the switch pigtail wire harness connector from the clockspring pigtail wire harness connector.
- Remove the screws (2). Then remove the speed control pod and (if equipped) the Blue And Me pod switches (3) from the steering wheel bezel (1).