St202 Facelift Steering Wheel Airbag

[spacefaceuk]

Hey all,

Some of you may be aware that in the facelift celica st202 there were two types of steering wheel, most GTs came with a four spoke leather with built in airbag, some later GTs (98-99) came with a 3 spoke design.

I have a 98 with the 4-spoke and I have managed to get hold of the rare 3-spoke version. Being from the Celica family i assumed swapping them over was a possibility - however when i removed the steering wheel and compared the back, behold the airbag's have different plugs!

The 3-spoke is the same as the ones that came in the MR2 in 99 I believe, and not far off a lexus is200 wheel, as well as very similar to the gen 7 version.

Question is, has anyone attempted this before? Is this just a trivial difference?

Does anyone have any details on these airbags at all? Another difference is the 4-spoke has 2 red wires coming out of it, the 3-spoke has one red and one black...which is a tad suspicious.

Any help would be appreciated,

cheers,

Kamran

[GT4 BOOSTER]

the airbag ecu tells the bag in the wheel to deploy at something like a 4g crash detection (guess )

the worst case id think is the airbag warning light may appear on the dash or the bag wont get the correct messages and wont deploy / or it may get confused and deploy even if 1 day you may be doing 70mph on a motorway . so ask yourself before swapping them over .

i used to make the airbag modules for toyota derby and there are many variants due to cars having different numbers of airbags ( squibs) fitted.

id personally leave it well alone , and put safety before vanity .