Begin by removing the vehicle's battery negative cable to deactivate the air bag system and after two minutes, the air bag system capacitor will have discharged. For a system with one actuator, remove the negative
Battery Cable before anything else or for a dual zone system with actuators on each side, start with disconnecting the negative battery cable. Take out the instrument panel from your vehicle. For single zone or dual zone systems on the driver side, take out the two screws that hold the blend door actuator, disconnect the wire harness and take out the actuator. To take apart the passenger side on a dual zone system, after removing the negative battery cable and panel, remove the link from the blend door lever and its actuator. Unscrew the blend door actuator and bracket from the top of the HVAC housing, unplug the HVAC wire harness connector and pull the actuator and bracket assembly from your vehicle.