Airbag control unit with part number 89170-60480

What does the airbag control unit 89170-60480 do?

The airbag control unit 89170-60480 controls the restraint system (SRS) for Toyota. In an impact it evaluates the sensor system, decides within milliseconds whether airbags and seatbelt pretensioners are triggered, and checks the system without pause.

If it detects a fault, it reports this via the airbag warning light. After an accident it stores crash data and then locks itself.

Why does the control unit 89170-60480 fail?

Most often the cause is crash data from an accident, even though no airbag has deployed. A standard diagnostic tool cannot erase them. In addition there are aged electronic components, cold solder joints, moisture and corrosion on plug connections, and voltage spikes.

They stay stored, regardless of how the car behaves afterwards.

The other causes act more gradually. Components age, solder joints can lose contact, and moisture attacks plug connections. Voltage spikes, for example from a weak battery or from jump-starting, additionally strain the electronics.

How can you tell that the 89170-60480 is defective?

If the airbag warning light in the instrument cluster lights up or flashes, the vehicle reports a fault. Typical are also a message on the display, a diagnostic tool without connection to the control unit, and a fault memory that cannot be reset. In an emergency, airbags and seatbelt pretensioners may then fail to deploy.

The warning light is one of the most important warning signals in the vehicle. Have the system checked promptly at a workshop.

Which vehicles is the 89170-60480 fitted in?

The control unit 89170-60480 is fitted in these vehicles: Toyota Prado J150 1st Facelift (2013-2015), J150 2nd Facelift (2015-2018), J150 3rd Facelift (2018-2024) and J150 (2009-2013).

The models that belong to it:

• Toyota Prado J150 1st Facelift (2013-2015)
• Toyota Prado J150 2nd Facelift (2015-2018)
• Toyota Prado J150 3rd Facelift (2018-2024)
• Toyota Prado J150 (2009-2013)

You can compare the part number on the label of the removed unit with this page. This only confirms that it is the right unit. Whether the control unit is defective or a plug or cable is causing the fault is shown only by a fault memory read out beforehand.

For the same vehicles, we also repair control units with the part numbers 150300-2965, 89170-60540, 89170-60630, 89170-60631.

How does the repair of the 89170-60480 work?

Your first step is to have the fault memory read out; you attach the log. Then you disconnect the battery and only then remove the control unit from the vehicle. In the last step you create the repair order online and send the unit off well packed.

On the test bench Airbag24 checks the control unit. Defective components are replaced, crash data are deleted, and a function test completes the work. Processing usually takes 3–4 working days.

Our repairs come with 2 years' statutory liability for defects. The repaired control unit comes back with all vehicle data and is ready for use as soon as it is refitted — no coding or programming is required.

How does the control unit 89170-60480 get to Airbag24?

You arrange the shipment yourself as a parcel, or you book a UPS collection for an extra charge. After the repair the control unit comes back to you by UPS.

Pack the printed repair order and protect the unit with shock-resistant packaging.