sammytaylor

Just bought a new Sienna LE. The dealer says the front passenger seat
airbags come out of the seat about chest-high. The bag, I'm told, emerges
from what looks like a perfect seam in the upholstery on the side of the
seat. About 16" below this is the SRS Airbag notice. I don't believe the
dealer. Nobody would design an airbag that has to blast through an
upholstery seam. Can somebody give me the real info here? I want to modify a
seat cover for these seats but need to know where the air bag really comes
from! (I suspect it is from the hinge area, where the SRS notice is.)

Thanks.

In article <Jvp9c.15541$TU2.7903@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com >,
"sammytaylor" <sammytaylor@thesellersplace.com> wrote:

> Just bought a new Sienna LE. The dealer says the front passenger seat
> airbags come out of the seat about chest-high. The bag, I'm told, emerges
> from what looks like a perfect seam in the upholstery on the side of the
> seat. About 16" below this is the SRS Airbag notice. I don't believe the
> dealer. Nobody would design an airbag that has to blast through an
> upholstery seam. Can somebody give me the real info here? I want to modify a
> seat cover for these seats but need to know where the air bag really comes
> from! (I suspect it is from the hinge area, where the SRS notice is.)
>
> Thanks.
>
>

I saw a demonstration of airbag deployment. it's realy somthing to see.
Like a shotgun blast. I'm told that when you have a crash you don't
even know the air bags go off. I hope thats true because watching from
about 50 feet it was quite a bang.

Dale
--

cranheim

I ordered front seat covers from the Toyota dealer for my 2004 Sienna. When
they came in, it said on the instructions they were for seats without air
bags, so I had to return them and reorder the correct ones. I have not
figured out where the seat air bags come out of, but I will probably find
out when the correct seat covers come in. When the dealer ordered the
original seat covers, he did not think to specify the seats had air bags.
This is something to keep in mind of you buy an after market cover that may
not allow the air bag to deploy correctly. If it becomes obvious where the
bags come out when I install the correct covers I will post it. Charles
Ranheim

Derek Clarke

it is probably on the door side of the seats on the back support. there is
normally a tag that says that it has them, if its not there there probably
isn't any.

"cranheim" <cranheim@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> I ordered front seat covers from the Toyota dealer for my 2004 Sienna.
When
> they came in, it said on the instructions they were for seats without air
> bags, so I had to return them and reorder the correct ones. I have not
> figured out where the seat air bags come out of, but I will probably find
> out when the correct seat covers come in. When the dealer ordered the
> original seat covers, he did not think to specify the seats had air bags.
> This is something to keep in mind of you buy an after market cover that
may
> not allow the air bag to deploy correctly. If it becomes obvious where the
> bags come out when I install the correct covers I will post it. Charles
> Ranheim
>
>

Kenneth

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:03:37 GMT, "sammytaylor"
<sammytaylor@thesellersplace.com> wrote:

>Just bought a new Sienna LE. The dealer says the front passenger seat
>airbags come out of the seat about chest-high.

Howdy,

I assume that I am missing some thing here, but would not that mean
that the airbag is behind the passenger?

Thanks,

--
Kenneth

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sammytaylor

"Kenneth" <sole.nh.ultranet@SPAMLESSrcn.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 01:03:37 GMT, "sammytaylor"
> <sammytaylor@thesellersplace.com> wrote:
>
> >Just bought a new Sienna LE. The dealer says the front passenger seat
> >airbags come out of the seat about chest-high.
>
> Howdy,
>
> I assume that I am missing some thing here, but would not that mean
> that the airbag is behind the passenger?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Kenneth
>
> If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."

Sorry. What I meant was from the SIDE of the seat back. If you look at the
side of the seatback (the door side), about chest high, there are several
sewn seams (just like all the other seats). The service guy told me the
airbag blasts out of one of these seams.