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Confirm Working Airbags in Gen4 Prius

Discussion in 'Gen 4 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by jocose, Aug 6, 2021.

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    jocose New Member

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    I bought a salvage Gen4 Prius (2016, Two Trim, 50,000 Miles) that had rear ended someone. . The repair works looked top notch — looks and drives like a brand new car. That said, I wasn't able to speak with the shop that did the repairs. How can I independently confirm the front airbag sensors are wired in correctly.

    Note: I have the auction photos before the repairs were done, I can see that airbags were NOT deployed.
     
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    OBD with diagnostics, like Carista?


    That being said, I ran on mine and it was unable to complete the airbags check.
     
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    I am looking into those. It's all new to me so I didn't know how reliable those tests were or if they could give false positives. Is your Prius rebuilt/salvage or clean title?
     
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    Clean, bought it a fortnight ago from a Ford dealer, but with full service history and service done pre-sale at Toyota.
     
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    Something that important, I would cough up the $100 or so to get a dealer scan.
     
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    I have the tech stream software

    I have tech stream and the OBDII scanner. I used it to make a spare key. It says the airbags are good.

    My concern was if there if there anyway it could be wrong or that result could be faked. I was just wondering where I should physically look at the sensors and confirm all is well.
     
    #6 jocose, Aug 8, 2021
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