In a previous video https://youtu.be/qSmekk7STgc we had a look at a customer '17 Buick Envision and made the call on a couple bad impact sensors and a failed impact sensor connector. Now it's time to see if we made the right call.
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We're back on the Buick folks. Got the new sensors here from General Motors Still waiting on the connector so we don't have that yet, but we can at least pop this in see if the code goes away. Looks like they were kind of key did. come on.
Maybe got to loosen up just a little bit more. The connector is supposed to be here today also. All right, there's that. So here's the old one we took out OEM Doesn't appear to be physically damaged so we'll slip this little guy in there tight her down to factory spots if we will.
There we go back. expect on that baby. Probably should have plugged it in first, but we didn't. It'll be the next 25 minutes or so plugging it in.
which way was the red tab facing towards the latch? I Believe! Oh, look at that first try. Oh he even locked in a red lock. Let's grab a scan tool and see if the cod's gone for the right side. Got her hooked up she Auto vend uh.
let's see. we're just going to go to list flatable restraints. We'll just skip right to that module. We'll read the codes.
We'll probably have to clear the old one out. right front side impact history not current, not current so it's not current, not requested. So we're going to erase the codes here and then we'll ReRe it. We should just have the left yeah, left side impact open.
Let's go put the left side in. Remember the connector is bad on that front one if you remember from the first video. but we fiddled with a connector and it's making connection now. But we know full well if we go touch it, it'll come on.
But let's go put the left side in and this code should go away. Got another new one pop this up. So he did say this car was in a collision, but it was just a deer hit. No airbags deployed or anything.
and it was quite a while ago. More more than a year. So all right, there's the old one again. Nothing physical, no corrosion, nothing, nothing weird.
Oops. now we better we'll mount it first. I guess kind of hold that up in there where it kind of latches down inside that. Keyhole You know factory specs on that plugged in red lock is latched all right.
Key is back on. We're going to erase the codes. Then we're going to reread the codes. I Don't hear any dinging going on, so look at that.
she's all fixed. We just got to wait for that connector. Wonder what in the world? What the world? That's what I like to say all the time. What the world happen to these? How did both these things go bad To the best of the customers recollection at the same time? you know what I mean cuz he says his light wasn't on than it was.
so just really kind of bizarre to me. Um, if you ask me, but what do I know I'm going to take a slide. the door panels back on this baby. We'll wait for that connector to show up.
Just seems real weird to me. Man, give me the part number here. made in Canada or can Canadian friends to the north uh made these so these are the part numbers I used 135 76422. they're both the same. Yeah, both the same. So yeah I don't know I'd be curious to know what your guys' thoughts are. Um I suspect that the airbag lights been on for a little while. It's the only thing I can suspect, but the fact of the matter is you wouldn't? You wouldn't think because when you start these cars it, you know it dings at you every single time.
I Would think somebody would be quite aware that the airbag lights on. so I don't know? Give me your thoughts. Free tips right for you folks? Uh, you guys remember Whoa. I Remember taking this door apart a few things.
Some of the clips were kind of bent up, indicating that perhaps somebody was already in here. but the main thing was it was a son of a bee to get off because of of this little ordeal here. So we're going to slide this little guy slide it right off off. Ideally in the real world.
If everything was perfect, these little metal Clips would have came out when we took the door panel off. According to service data, it just said pull yank your low heart out. Uh, but we're smart. We don't want to break stuff cuz we know everything's made out of crappy plastic.
So to put this thing together though, these do have to come out. Service data also states that if any of these pop out of the door, you have to replace them all like that's ever going to happen. They're a sucker to get out because they want to. You know, the plastic that they go into will break.
so we've got to try to reach behind them. kind of wedge them up. Reach behind them, try to hit the latch. they're double latch here I have to get a light.
I'll show you how to take out one of them and then we'll uh, proceed to take them out. stick them on the car how they belong. Just it snaps together really nice. So during assembly, this must be really nice.
But um, during this disassembly, or reassembly, these things kind of suck. So pretty standard. Uh, you know, metal clip. It's got to push a little retainer on both ends.
What happens if you try to just stick a pick under them or a a prying device underneath them and just yank. One of these inevitably will bend down and spread open and then or the plastic will break. This plastic is super brittle. Um, so you just kind of got to be careful.
You can try to pry them up every once in a while. You'll get lucky. just like that last one I just did Well, that one's not too bad. The last door was a real pain.
Try to hold them Center like that one doesn't want to release. Just don't pry them too much cuz if you do like. I say the metal will will will bend and it'll get kind of jammed down there. Yeah, so three of them came out.
not too bad kind to hold up on it there. there's that one. and I'll show you where they go on the car. Makes put the door panel a whole lot easier.
putting it back together together. Come on baby! So you take your metal. Clips Well, they don't have to be absolutely perfect because the slot that these click into I Don't know if you guys got a good VI view of that before, but the slot that these click into on the panel. it's pretty big. It's pretty elongated. There's that this thing's kind of a piss poie I taped it up because it wants to swing down like that. The little cutout here goes up by the quarter glass. Now we kind of got got tweak it just a little bit to get it underneath over there.
No, not quite. Come on. straighten out baby. There She Goes Make sure it's all laying how it should.
There's that, and then now we can take. So ideally when you took the door panel off, these would have been just like that. You would have grabbed the door panel and clunk, pulled it away. If you do that, I'll tell you 100% you're going to break most of the top of that door where these go in or like I say the metal tab here will bend up and over and then it will just break the plastic on the way out.
So I think I think we did the best that we could do, taking the door panel off, lifting it up, taking the uh molding with it. that way. we were careful not to break anything on the door uh itself. So let's go get the panel.
got to hook up your release and one electrical connector and that's it. Got all the pins straightened out the best I could, uh, the ones that were kind of bent over there. there's one on the bottom. This very bottom one here was looks like it hasn't been put in correct, uh for a long time.
So anyhow, it's going to be really difficult to show how this goes on, but you'll get the concept here. First of all, we're going to plug it in, push down the red lock. oh almost rooky mistake of the Year Let's hook our uh door cable up, put that baby back in that's back in now. We'll get our door lock back under there so it falls right in the world.
Woo! It's all lined up here. There is a uh alignment pin on the doors right here. uh well, yeah, right below here there's a lime Peg and there's another one here on the front of this door. Get them lined up, get those snapped, and then go around and literally just click the door in like that.
Uh, let me go get my uh nut driver there. Let's see. Set this stuff down. Guess before we get get too far here, we'll make sure everything works all right.
All that stuff works. Take and stick our screws back in the door pole. just get them all started before we tighten them down. But you can see how from an assembly standpoint that this door would go together very quickly.
You know, if your if your job at the factory is to attach the door panel to the door, it would only take you about a second to do so. But from a disassembly standpoint, those metal Clips are an absolute disaster to work with. You don't see them much anymore nowadays, but every once a while you'll run across some of them and they can be a real piss pot. So there's that. Stick the finger goo catcher back down in there, stick this back up in here. It only goes in one way. A couple little fingers on that, and then the little tabs on top, stick a little fingers down in, click that in, and then, uh, clean off the door panel. We got to make sure we unlatch the latch.
There we go cuz I had it latched so I didn't Didn't have to listen to the door dinger. Perfect. Looks good. Lucky us.
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There it is there's that should be the right one. Our battery maintainer there's pop this red clip back. we P this little guy off there fish it around so we can get to it a little better. We'll probably leave longer leads on it than than necessary.
Make a little easier. let's have a look. Appears to be the same. Exactly the same good.
I Guess we don't even know this. We get our wire cutting and chopping stuff and we'll chop it off and get the new one on there. Had some Tessa tape on it I Opened up the loom Let's see we actually we'll cut her a little closer. there's that one.
There's that one so we can still identify who goes where. Take these are pretty tiny. Strip them back just a little bit about that much. about 6 mm probably.
Oops, missed it. There's that. that one's a little less now. I've already cut our connector down a little bit.
It came with some non-insulated Barrel connectors and some heat shrink so that's what we're going to use. Makes a good connection. I'm going to open up the tape here just a little bit more. Okay, first one we're going to do is the black with the orange stripe which is this one right here.
Got to get close to my eyes can see here. Got my readers on. Make sure we don't get any stray strands. there's that we'll hold that we'll grab our use the non-insulated portion of your crimpers here, which is the ones with a little donger sticking off them hold the wire little tug.
At this point you look to say did I put the heat shrink on. Hopefully you did slip that one over. same thing. give that a squeeze right there.
That one's good. Beautiful. Pull back our tape a little. We'll slide our heat shrink now.
Make sure you use a good heat shrink. the heat shrink that has the adhesive in it. It's got quite a bit heavier wall. Put that about the halfway point.
We'll grab our heat gun here. We tune her down to a now don't ever do this next to the battery. I'm going let that cool for just a second. I'll slide the other one down I'm going to peel that tape back just a little bit more. slide this one down, make sure you see the adhesive kind of ooze out of there. It's pretty obvious. All right, they look good. So I'm just going to hold these till they cool, Make sure they don't touch and become adhered together and then we'll plug it in.
We should have plugged it in first right to make sure it was right, but we didn't so we'll suffer the consequences if we're wrong. Not to mention it was a very expensive connector. All right, she's pretty cool. Now we're going to tape her back up with the Tessa tape so some people ask that they can't understand my words.
it's Tessa TSA Okay, it's a, uh, really super good taste I think they use it on a lot of Euro stuff but has really really good abrasion resistance and it's super sticky to itself. It's not too bad to work with. Want to start back down here where we left off and work all your life? It a't kind of P it around there. We could have done the old socket trick and wrapped this around a small socket.
but like I say this stuff doesn't seem sticky by itself. but as soon as you uh, touch it to itself, it clings on. Pretty dang good. You have to all right? So we'll end that right there.
We'll put the poly Loom back on it. Our wire is going to be a little longer than it was, but I didn't want to tear a whole bunch of stuff apart. Keep it short. See you later now.
You may get some points deducted at the car show. If somebody sees this run back behind that ground how it was, bring it back over, plug it in, close it up, hide the little extra. We'll bring it around. We just want to make sure it's not not pinched.
We don't want to restrict the flow of electricity by having it pinched off, you know, So that's that. We should be good again. Check them out. Connector Experts Not a sponsor.
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We're done. All we got left now is to fix the rear wiper, but the wiper motor is not a back order. We'll have it here in a couple days, hopefully from General Motors Maybe we'll do a video on that. The motor's just bad, so let's verify that this works.
Easiest way to verify that? let just start it up. First of all, we should have no airbag light on. All right, Airbag lights out. We'll dismiss that and there we are.
so he's back to being fixed again. So we're just going to sit here to turn the key on on a Chevrolet you got to hold the button for a while. All right. let's go make sure there's no codes.
We do that over here. Go in here again. go to codes, read codes, no codes. always reread them just to be sure.
Sometimes it brings up the old this. but and then I think what I'm going to do if I Remember right? this thing had a whole bunch of like low voltage codes and stuff from a uh, previous low battery. so we'll just go through and wipe them out. Well we got the scan tool hooked up if I remember correctly, that's what it had in it. a bunch of old history codes. yeah, History code for parking brake switch. these are all history codes. Voltage low qu a jar yeah yeah, these are all history codes.
all history, not current. so we'll give it the old quick erase. turn everything green, make us feel good. That's it folks.
Fix an airbag light on your Buick essence essence Envision Envision Essence whatever little Buick car. They happen to have just two bad sensors and a bad connector. We're able to prove out every single fault. um, by using uh, some logic.
So I think I mentioned in the first part of the video to do this you know by the book, so to speak. They've got you disconnecting everything and doing you know M checks Which you know M checks are virtually worthless in most cases when you're checking wire. Integrity Um, we chose to do it by short shorting them out because the computer has the ability to see a short circuit. You know? um, there's obviously a lot of redundancy built into circuits nowadays.
I'm not a big computer circuit guy. Um, but there's protected devices or the ability for that device to detect an open circuit. a short to voltage. you know, short to ground.
So uh, clearly grounding these circuits once we know their design doesn't hurt them. Um, but I guess with that being said, if you don't know the circuit design, how it functions, or its ability to detect faults, don't just go shorten things out or using your Power Probe to you know, stick, power and stuff at things. it could get real stupid real quick. and uh, that's it.
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Brilliant! 🤩
Personally I would rather fight with those metal clips than fight with some of the Christmas tree clips that I swear 5 of them could literally lift the entire vehicle.😂… or deal with Honda plastic with metal clips or Hyundai or Kia plastic clips that shatter just looking at them.🤦🏻♂️ I truly miss the old school square metal inserts that acted like a speed nut and you simply screwed the parts together.
Great diag process….again no collateral damage to the vehicle. Boy, the connector experts are super proud of their parts ! One 4 pin connector, $84.
Whenever anybody is going to ride with me I tell them if you slam the door you will walk to where we stopped and I will not give you a ride home do not slam my doors I am a car guy and you do not slam doors on car guys cars .
…I'll get a light to show you….proceeds to put light directly in front of the cameras view…
South Main Auto.. One of the other Master techs where I used to work was diagnosing an airbag system. Well he probed the wrong wires and all (I think 5) of the airbags blew at the same time. I was on vacation when it happened but everyone said it scared him so bad he pooped his pants and had to go home for the rest of the day. I LMAO and said man, I always miss the good stuff.
As always great work!
Thank ya for sharing the connector website. I have been… not actively… looking for something just that… for a future project.
Maybe some kind of elec spike, or alternator exchange, jump start, Etc…. ?
Tesa tape is old fashion friction tape, also makes great taped stickball bats handles for you youngsters that never grew up in the city.
It's nice to be able to get connectors in the US. I was looking for one for my Jag a few months ago, but Jaguar don't supply them separately and the company that make them, don't supply to the public, so I ended up buying a secondhand part with the connector attached. I couldn't see anyone in the UK supplying them.
Remember when airbag connectors were colored bright yellow? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Did the Buick Envision replace the Encore?
Disappointed you didn't take apart one of those broken $200 connectors switches modules or whatever the hell you call it
GM cars have always been vulnerable to lightning strike damage, however it usually comes from the radio and travels through the BCM. I would be curious if this car had a lightning strike in its history.
Junk parts. Some brands don't seem to have this issue as often as others without a crash.
You have a thing I've seen you do a lot for a long time, you check how tight a connection holds together. This time that check was needed to fix the problem, ignore it and you're still in trouble with this problem. I worked on my own cars for years, never thought to do this check. It might have come in handy. Experience is why you're so good. Pay attention to detail, analyze the problem, recall past issues, all plays into a mechanic who never seems to be stuck. A real gem of a tech. Great stuff.
I am really surprised 2 sensors and a connector kinda weird
Ailicone-spray is for the win – i use it on all plastic-clips.
Good against braking and sticking plastic-parts.
Works very well.
There's so much to go wrong with vehicles these days, and then there's trying to ID and fix the problem.
You shoulda done this… yous shoulda done dat…yous dont know….yous dont solder….yous not taping it right. 😅😅
2017 Buick Envision that's been driven it's whole life in dirt and salt? I'd wager that the problem with that connector was "environmentally" compromised too. Another great save by an everyday athlete. Thanks for the vid Mr. O!
Can the car pass inspection in NY with SRS light on…??? I wouldn’t think so …just wondering as you mentioned the light may have been on for a while (perhaps maybe ).
Would you consider opening one of the bad sensors to let us see what is inside, how they work and maybe determine what went wrong with it?
Your car show comments always give me a giggle.
Customer never tells you the entire truth. It don't matter anyway. Because it's your bag to fix.
The amount of plastic used in new cars is amazing. Isn't plastic made from petroleum? What do the "Stop Oil" people think will replace plastic??
Nice clean and tidy fix. Proper pride in the job.
good video enjoy as always stay warm
Why go to the dealer when you are around…
It's all fun and games until you find the MSRP on each sensor is $270…
Mr O's concientiousness and attention to detail is unreal. Tip on plastics door and other tabs for my fellow amateurs out there without Eric O's encyclopedic knowledge of disassembly techniques….get yerselves a basic plastic welder….essentially a soldering iron with wide tip….and some stainless steel mesh fabric. When you snap anything plastic….and you will…put all the broken bits back into position and then melt the wire mesh into the plastic across the breaks. The repaired part is stronger than the original. Never fails.
You're the best Mr. O! Great video.
This wreaks of a case of inducing a short into the line. Didn't happen without help. Great job Eric!
Built in obsolescence. I think that when an electric part cycles for a certain amount of times it's programmed or designed to fail and be replaced. Or…they're crap.
i wonder if opening and closing doors over time cause the sensors to fail ??
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Great job catching that pin drag.
Time delay self destruct. Planned for you to trade it in on a new one. Easy fix and put it in the used lot at twice the trade-in value… Thanks for videos!
Did you ever get a good magnified look at that bad connector to see what happened to the pins? Im curious if they were bent, or fell out, had a broken wire at the connector, or had crusties deep down. Good job finding the faults. Ill admit the criss cross code thing (Rt front Left rear, etc) had me scratching my head at first…thought it was shorted in the module….but then it vanished when YOU shorted it to ground!
module.
A Happy Holidays to You, Mrs O, and all the "little" O's…even the 4 legged ones.
Can you imagine putting one of door panels on every 53 seconds plus connectors and zipping a couple nuts here and there. It happens ,from one who worked a assembly line 35 years.
why r the connectors so pricy $80
Attack of the mold.
I find it odd that two collision sensors and a connector fail when it is rare to have any fail, ever. The Envision is made in China. That may explain it.
Mechanics are now considered ITT because cars are now basically computers on wheels. How long before they fly?
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Good choice on that type of shrink sleeving, not only do you have an adhesive but it also will seal against water intrusion. There are solder connectors that have a solder band in the middle and a sealant on both ends, we used in aircraft harnesses. Only thing I would have done differently is after crimping solder backfill the splice, then fold over and tie wrap the joint for strain relief. Thats me though, not a critique of your work, only another view.
Why every manufacturer make their door cards different now? Used to be one damn way just pull up on the things after the screws are out.. now you need a heat gun, prybar, a friend and lube to get to the damn door guts..
I like that T-handle wrench, very handy. Jeez Louise, it took you longer to get to the sensors than it did to diagnose and replace them. Love those kinds of designs. Maybe water got into the sensors and they failed one after the other in short order?
I think they make that plastic out of wasa crisp bread. Land Rover uses the same formula.
Connector Experts. I will have to remember them, Working on old Land Rovers getting connectors can be a trial.
Instructions for installing crimped connectors:
1. Connect the wires securely together
2. slide the connector over the wire connection
3. crimp securely using the proper crimping tool
4. But first slide on the heat shrink tubing.
There is nothing worse than taking off a plastic panel thinking those snap noises are the connectors releasing and it’s actually the panel breaking around them.
Eric, you should have cut the wires one at a time. Friend of mine did that and the air bags went off, consider yourself lucky. Good work, always watch your work, I learn a lot from you.
You have to use a load test on wiring one strand of wire, so there's 100 strands out in the wire 10 gauge wire using a gage it is one little strand of wire will trick the meter to think that the wire is good it'll help out good he were resistance, so you're right resistance doesn't checkfor damage wires checks for open and shorts only
Had two window motors fail on a gm van at the same time. Talked to the local dealer and they said I should take it up with gm customer relations. They agreed it must have been a manufacturing defect and they covered the cost of the motors.
All the Daewoo GM products do not qualify for car shows.
That car is a 2017 and it already has these problems? I guess if I decide to buy a newer car (to replace my 30-year-old one) I will need to travel to the PRNY for repairs.
the buick with alot of secrets.
"Why are all these sensors going bad at the same time?" Planned obsolescence. If you notice, TPMS sensors are the same. They all die about the same time.
Hi from the east coast Canada 🇨🇦. Love your content.
Surprised they haven't made it so a door is a replaceable sub-unit. Problem in the door? Just replace the whole thing! Easy and only costs the customer a few grand!
China, that's all i'd say
At the risk of being super-critical, I don't think you should have ran your shrink-wrap torch as close to the battery as you did, Eric. I would bet that off-camera, you sampled the air around the battery and determined there was no danger, as we all know batteries produce explosive gasses. All kidding aside, I would also bet stranger things have happened; especially to you. GREAT VIDEO!
Mr O is your flush cut , cutters snap on or blue point?
Friction tape
My old Silverado I use to own had a front bumper sensor that went bad. we hadn't wrecked it or bumped in to anything, I think GM makes crappy sensors! 😂
My curious nature would try to read resistance on the bad switches. Only reason I can think of.
Love to see a comedy sketch of testing the crash sensor by crashing the car into a wall. "Yep, it works"
"Work our your own salvation with fear and trembling." Is that text pen-knifed from your Bible on Sunday?
Either lightning or aliens 😂
Does each air bag inflators have there own connection at the air bag control module just asking and i thought each seat and belt harness sends its own signals – could it be a factory defect . Yea my Chevy-two water bottles can and will turn on the seatbelt ding and lights on right front and the back seats too if to much junk is there in that seating area ❤
Besides the excellent diagnosis, the upper door panel tip was great.
Long time since a dental update, unless they all fell out & you elect not to discuss it. ❓
Shit happens. At one of our cars, both belt tensioner broke within a week.
Technically you can NOT see them later NOW, just saying .🗽🇺🇸🛐👌
As always IMPRESSIVE. Well done, skill at its best.
Nothing like planned vehicle obsolescence. Is everything just junk now?
Always use solder. Especially in doors that open close all the time, vibrations etc. Never trust yo mammas butt connectors
Modern cars, plastic connected to plastic with plastic. Quick to assemble with no thought for taking it apart
Excellent video and a great logical approach.👍👍👍
Nice work.
Engineered failure point. Another means to get your money into their pockets so they can buy a new yacht or mansion every year.
When multiple electrical issues occur, compromised grounds cannot be discounted.
It makes me wonder… if the car was at a dealer, and they tried to diagnose the issue, could they have used something that shorted out those door sensors? Or the possibility of slamming the doors shut just a few too many times?
Lightning strike might of tweeked the sensors……..😕🫤🫣
I'm guessing you also do work on powersports by the way you spin those t-handles? Thanks for being ambassador for a tough industry
Thanks for the plug on the connection experts! I had never heard of them or stumbled across them before.
What's the real chance of both of those sensors going at once? Not getting a great feeling from that.
Awesome thanks
Wouldn't be a newer car without something brittle or one time use 😂
TESA has been used in the US for at least 20 years. Multiple types, including some that you CANNOT just tear. It has to be cut. GREAT tape. I got a 'sales' sample when they came to present this tape to our EESE team. It is GREAT tape…and it has a pretty "Great" price. LOL…yea…pay for the quality!
Too much fluxing of the capacitors!😊
Maybe when they build cars… they should have the folks at the factory build one then have the designers completely disassemble the entire thing. MAYBE then they’d see the rotten fruit of their designs… stupid clips…
You would make an EXCELLENT auto shop teacher, Mr. O!
Wouldn’t you really have a Buick?
They( the new ones ) should be better because they are made in Canada 🤣🤣and those clips are a pisser to fix I had one come apart on me in a GM-H AUS vehicle I learnt my lesson Cheers Mr O.
Clearly the maple syrup just ran out.
When I repair the connectors I offset the splice but, Well that's just me. And the tape you are using is what we call friction tape. Look at any older Chrysler's. The original red lock tab people. Thanks for another great video!