VE Dash / Passenger Air Bag

[VE_WagonII]

Hi all
Can you purchase from Holden and replace the dash panel that the passenger side air bag is installed in?
My car is an ex-cop and it's extremely scratched.
I'd assume you would disconnect the battery to stop the air bag going off?

Cheers

 

[VS_Pete]

I think you have to get a expert to do that job.
Ring holden service

 

[VE_WagonII]

I think you have to get a expert to do that job.
Ring holden service

Really? I've had the glovebox out before, I would have thought you remove the silver dash strip , pop off the tweeter trim panel where it meets the windscreen and you should find some screws holding it on??

 

[vywgn]

Can also get the dash pad from a wrecker.the airbag itself is bolted to the underside of the dash.

 

[VE_WagonII]

Can also get the dash pad from a wrecker.the airbag itself is bolted to the underside of the dash.

Do you know how it's removed?

 

[vywgn]

Gotta pull the whole dash apart to do it

 

[VE_WagonII]

Gotta pull the whole dash apart to do it

That'd be right. I figured it could be easily removed.

 

[VE_WagonII]

Just found a video on YouTube. Looks like the entire centre console needs to come out, the glovebox the tweeter trims and then you may be able to remove this dash pad.
Might ring Holden and see if this is even a single part you can purchase.

 

[Fu Manchu]

It's not a single part. The whole crash pad assembly is one part. The job is beyond huge to do.
The centre console, trims and everything come out.
You have to disconnect the airbag system.
You have to remove the airbag.

You need two people to do the job. (removing it from the car)

It's big.

 

[Fu Manchu]

I got a lot of photos of the work I did, but it turns out the one lot I didn't get was the instrument pad out of the car.

This is an edit of one from Facebook that formed the only info I could find at the time of how to remove the whole lot.

This is mine of the underside.
There are screws that can be undone that hold the pad and airbag assembly in place, so yeah, you could maybe swap it by the look, but you'd need a whole instrument/crash pad from a wrecker anyway, so you'd just swap the whole thing over.

It could take you at least 7 hours and likely more than 21hrs.

All the ducting needs to be removed, so you will also need to replace the foam seals.