I have a 2010 Civic Coupe that was involved in an accident before I owned it. Its throwing codes F1-11, F2-11, F4-11. It had no airbag in the passenger side seat on the side closest to the passenger door, so I put a new airbag in it. The seatbelt on both sides retract fine and when I clear the codes with by BlueDriver scan tool the airbag light on the dash stays illuminated. Whats the solution? Thank you
The solution would be not to buy salvage title cars.
Who knows what happened to the electronics in the air bag system in that accident. If the air bags deployed, there is almost certainly wiring loom damage amongst other things. Tracing down the cause will be a nightmare and likely there will be multiple wiring problems.
Car still has a clean title. Thanks
If it got hit hard enough for the airbags to deploy, you likely have a "washed" clean title. Pull a CarFax and see if it shows title issues. Airbag deployment = automatic insurance total, every time, no exceptions. It's the first question they ask. If you bought from a dealer, they probably sold it to you before the title was updated. Unfortunately I see that all the time.
Post wouldn't edit for some reason. What I was trying to say is air bag deployment is one of the biggest factors for totalling a car. It isn't a foredrawn conclusion, but in most states if they deployed then sufficient damage was done to justify totalling the vehicle. In your case, you definitely got enough damage to the wiring to cause issues. Normally people who buy wrecked cars tend to just live with it and not care as fixing the issues gets expensive. This leads to another good piece of advice: Never purchase a vehicle that has warning lights on the dash. Unless you just want a project car.
Excellent advice here from Mod_Man.
@Doc Thanks!