Focus of recent activity has been on the interior/center console
* Found a wire connector in the console area that did not look OEM, so I followed it up behind the glove box, only to find this harness had tapped into the passenger airbag wiring. This is probably why the airbag light did not go out. Best guess is the police computer would allow the officer to override the airbag sensor in the passenger seat, in case they were carrying something over there that would not want to impact the airbag. Anyway with the police computer removed it was just not connected.
* Received the airbag module after reset and installed it - now there are no lights in the dash. Oddly enough the horn and seat belt indicators did not work with the airbag module out.
* Opened up the passenger front door to track down some wires that did not look OEM but were headed in there. Considering the passenger airbag bypass I'm taking nothing for granted. Well it turned out these were for lights that had been attached to the bottom of the mirrors.
* While passenger door panel and glove box were removed they got a good coffee cleaning
* Center console got a good cleaning. It was a junkyard part but it too suffered from at least one good coffee spill. Pic is of the patient on the operating table lol.
* Center console wiring turned out to be a decent size task. The problem was the wiring harness is not compatible with any of the open plugs in the vicinity of the console. Its from a 2018 - I just can't imagine what the engineers were thinking. So I ended up using the wiring harness from the mini-console that had originally come with the car.
- The USB/aux cord port is different dimensions than the one that came with the console, so that needed fabricated.
- The console has 2 USB charging ports in the back, and while the plug is the same as one on the mini console, when I plugged it in the ports did not work. Rather than guessing I ordered a charging port that will fit in the hole and will wire it in.
- I decided that there should be at least two charging ports in the console, so I ordered a charging port for that as well.
- The cup holders have a light around them that should go on with the dash lights. Problem is in the 30+ wires that are in the three wiring sockets, not one of them is connected to the dash light circuit. I found one wire with keyed power so these lights will go on and off with the key, as will the light for the cigarette lighter in the console storage compartment.
- The USB port that is integrated with the stereo system is too far away from where the USB cord comes out from under the dash. Oh there is a cable with the console but the stupid thing has two male ends and won't plug in - luckily this is easily fixed and an extension cable is on order.
The connector is the same - one of these is from the car wiring harness, the other is from the console. Both female, and apparently not intended to be connected.
The passenger side front is all back together and looking normal
Oh yes it has a new battery as well!