Front Air Bag Sensor Control problems of the 2004 Toyota Camry

My husband was replacing door handle when he took off the left front door panel, he found that the airbag sensor has disintegrated from the inside out. We took pictures took it into dublin CA Toyota. They will not repair this. I then had some repair work done on the right side of my car and the owner of the shop also reported that the same thing on the right side . He stated that this is a default and it could very likely cause the airbag to go off prematurely or not work if there was an impact , that this was a danger to who ever was driving my car. I have photos and also a report from dublin Toyota . I'm not only in fear for my safety but the fact that Toyota shows no concern for my safety and how many others could have the same issue. Deborah anderson.

Off light for passenger air bag stays on. It was reset a year ago and within three months went back on. The mechanics said that the seat occupancy sensor needs to be replaced which for part he quoted $431. 50 and with labor would cost total of $640. 00. Is there a recall for this. The car is u around 95,000 miles and it needs robe fixed for my car inspection?.

Tl - the contact owns a 2004 Toyota Camry. The contact stated that the air bag warning lamp illuminated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The technician diagnosed that the passenger seat air bag sensor was defective and as a result, the air bag seat assembly needed to be replaced. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 135,000. Pm.

Since Toyota is having all these problems I want to bring up a problem with my Toyota Camry that is a safety issue but has not caused a problem yet. It is out of warranty. About a two months ago I got an airbag malfunction light. I also noticed that the light on the console that tells you whether there is a passenger in the front passenger seat was malfunctioning too. So with someone in the front right seat, the indications are that the system thinks there is no one there so the airbag is off. I said something to the dealer but he did not mention anything about a recall. There is 122k miles on the car. Maybe this is just some sensor that wore out but I wanted to mention it with all the other safety issues going on with Toyota.

The passenger side air bag of our 2004 Camry repeatedly disengages. The dealership has re-calibrated the computer five times now and the dealership service manager says this is a known problem to Toyota but their engineers have not figured out how to fix it. They refuse to replace any parts, saying that there are too many parts that could be the problem and they'd just be "throwing parts" at it. They also claim the lemon law does not apply to this problem specifically because they are not replacing parts but simply re-calibrating. I don't know what to put in here for incident date because there have been so many. I will use the last one below, but this is a repair we've had to seek again five times. The only reason we have not had to seek it more than that is that normally my wife drives this car alone and rarely has a passenger. The airbag only disengages when there is a passenger. It appears there may be some connection between seatbelt use and putting car in or out of gear. This last time it went out we were stuck in traffic for about an hour. At one point the passenger released the seatbelt. We were taking the car in and out of gear every 5-10 minutes to move just a few yards. Another time the airbag disengaged was somewhat similar. We had pulled into a rest area. I was in the passenger seat and got out. My wife later moved the car (driving) and was waiting for me to get back in with the car running, in gear. When I got back in, shortly thereafter we noticed the airbag disengage light came on.

Air bags failed to activate in direct head-on collision at o/a 35 mph. Personal injuries from shoulder restraints which could/would have been averted if air bags bhad inflated. Sensors apparently failed to operate dersite sufficient impact to virtually destroy entire front end.