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Hi Everyone. I’m new on here and I could use some help please. I have 2011 Nissan Versa. I was trying to replace my clock spring I guess that’s what’s called behind the wheel. I had a really difficult time getting the yellow airbag plug and the grey one next to it off. I was trying to pull the grey one out with a screw driver and by accident I cut off three wires that were to the grey plug. The wires came out with the metal prong inside. Does anyone have a picture diagram they can help me out please so I can put back in if possible I don’t want to blow anything?
a picture would help me out a lot. Thank you. Also do you know if that harness could be bought? I try to look it up online shows me everything but what I need.
Thank you everyone for your help.
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Yep, messing with very cheap components there that will cost you 10X what they are worth and butchering wiring there shows high incompetence, every connector there should easily unclick with no trouble provided you do it in the correct way.

Forget any pics as somebody has to tear theirs apart to get some and as well that part has so many things going on you may be talking about a hundred different locations. In short, NOT happening. Your only prayer is to yourself post pics of the problem, it may prompt somebody to say something.

The yellow and red airbag connectors have locks on them that lift up to unlock the connector from the pin, if you looked at your new spiral cable (clockspring) you could easily take one apart to see how they lock, but no, no thinking going on there.

Just did my '11 Versa one and piece of cake................I certainly hope you got that battery disconnected, if an airbag goes off to hurt you you will wish you had.

If the bag light was on you likely will find it still on when the work is done, you have to put the bag system into diagnostic to get it to recognize that things are back right to get the light to go back off after the clockspring work.
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Page SRS-35 in the airbag section of that manual will show what the connectors look like and how they work.
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If the circuits you messed up were actual airbag ones, they are super sensitive to any extra resistance in there at ALL. The cuts need soldering to get that closer and simply mechanically splicing them is going to lead likely to bag codes when the computer does not like the resistance; even as low as a couple ohms can trigger a code.

I for one have just in the last month jinked on several of those circuits to mod what was running to spiral cable and what wasn't on my '11, I used simple short pieces of wire to do it and the whole thing works fine now. The spiral itself has a harness about 6-8 inches long beyond the ribbon ends to connect both ends of it into the rest of the system.
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I just corrected my post #3 which said yellow and gray for airbag connectors, they are actually yellow and red.
You need to positively figure out what is running the battery down first, That could be causing much of the other stuff.
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