Getting a 96 lumina from my grandparents. It has some airbag codes and am trying to figure out what might need to be done:

Error Codes:
#26 - Driver initiator circuit open
#21 - Driver Circuit REsistance High
# Defective DERM


I'm new to airbag codes and what the common problems are. Please help if you have any input.

Thanks

 

Probably the clock spring.

 

would a clock spring account for all of those codes?

 

Resistance high, open circuit is just that. Yes. I had to replace the clockspring in my 96 lumina due to I cut the wire from the clockspring to the airbag after several times of having to get into the steering column. I replaced it with the same GM number off ebay. All I had was an airbag light on the dash.

 

Have you been into the steering column?

 

no. i am picking up the car in a few days. how can you tell if the clock spring needs to be replaced?

 

Not, but the air bag is the only other thing in the equation. The codes that you have point to a open circuit. Air bag circuit is only (IMO) a faulty clock spring connection OR an air bag "problem". Dealing with this in my 96 lumina , was an airbag warning, clockspring from a 96 Olds fixed it, same GM part number I got off ebay