Hello,
About 6 months ago my SRS light came on and was giving me code 11-10 in my 2014 Honda Civic Si. The dealership couldn't find any reason for this. I replaced the clock spring/cable reel with the Honda part and that fixed the problem. Today, the light came on again. It goes away when I restart the car and will come on if I am in reverse with my steering wheel turned to the right. Would this mean it's the clock spring again or should I take it to the dealer again? I just don't want to pay for them to find nothing wrong again or to replace a part that is easily changeable myself.
Thank you for the help.
Just a thought here.....you would have to use a DVOM and trace back the SRS wires back to the SRS Module and disconnect the module. Connect one lead to the disconnected SRS wire going to the cloakspring. Connect th other DVOM to the clock spring wire that is for the SRS airbag. Now then turn the steering wheel as you did and lets see if the DVOM values change rapidly...indicating a connection failure....as supposedly the Code means.
According to this Honda website the following.
Airbag light turned on permanently on my 2003 Accord. Took it into the dealer for diagnostic. They said two codes came back, one for the faulty driver side buckle, which they replaced. The code 11-10 is for the inflator, which they want $445 to replace. Does anyone have any advice for this code/issue? I wanna check if there are parts that available for a diy repair. $445 is a steep price for an old car like mine at 176k miles.
I looked at this post in the past. The problem with my experience (and a few other people's) is that when they test the inflators they test to be working. I don't know exactly how they test them but I was told mine were working fine when I brought it in a few months back with this problem.
Code 11-10 states that there is a high resistance or open circuit in the inflator. If there was a problem with the inflator, wouldn't the srs light always be on and not intermittent like in my situation?
If I interpret the CODE meaning right..any kind of resistance can be anywhere in the circuit including the components that are connected as well. In this case to prove your clock spring is not a problem you would have to use a DVOM to check each connection and then also the exact wires the SRS system uses and check the resistance as well. A problem is that the SRS might be expecting a certain range of resistance so we can't know for sure. You would have to find out thru some electrical spec chart to find out. Now that was just the clock spring now you would have to check the clock spring connector inside the steering wheel to the connector that goes to the SRS module as far as resistance values. Now testing the SRS Module...I don't know other than replacing it but Honda probably has some procedure for that but it would be interesting as the HOW is it done. In the end..I don't see much you can do other than checking the whole supposedly resisted/open circuit from SRS module to the airbag connector as a whole and each connected pieces in between.