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Air Bag Secondary Warning Chime

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The air bag secondary warning chime warns that the air bag warning indicator light does not work correctly and that a Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) fault condition exists. The IPC  monitors the air bag warning indicator status internally. When a fault is present in the air bag warning indicator and the IPC  receives an air bag warning indicator on request from the Restraints Control Module (RCM), the air bag secondary warning chime sounds.

The air bag secondary warning chime sounds for 1 second on then 1 second off for 5 seconds (5 1-second chime tones) then pauses for 5 seconds and repeats the chime on/off sequence for 5 minutes. The IPC  then turns off the air bag chime for approximately 30 minutes and repeats the cycle if the condition still exists.

The air bag secondary warning chime inputs are:

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