Hilux Clock Spring (Faulty Airbag Clock Spring)

A guy i work with had the same problem a few days ago, A Ford dealer quoted him $350 and an auto electrician $650.. He had it fixed by the ford dealer of course.!! Michael

Yeah my Prado did the same thing, left it for few days and it went away. Seemed to happen everytime i degreased the engine bay. BILs 07 Hilux did the same. When i rang another BIL, who worked for Toyota he said very very common problem.

replaced hundreds of them, very common problem, 600 is very steep though for the part, pm me I'll sort you out

I have an 06 Hilux which last week had a 100k service, exactly the same problem, when you do a search on the internet its a common complaint

The cost to repair through a dealer was about the same to.

Whatever happened to unbreakable??

It is a known waranty problem.
It is the airbag module in the column.
We had 5 replaced just on 100,000km under warranty.
My current hilux now has 126,000km and it only comes on every now and then and is out of warranty so it won't be getting fixed.
The other issue on hard worked hiluxes is the steering rack end on the driver's side gets about 1/2in of play. This is usually fixed under warranty as well (we had 3)

Cheers
Dave

A few people on the NewHilux forum seem to have had them replaced for free out of warranty, maybe have a poke around there for some 'tips'.
e.g
http://www.newhilux.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=4826&p=71018&hilit=+clock+spring+#p71018

This is a problem with many vehicles not just Hilux.
It is used for several purposes one being to tell the Computer when the steering wheel is straight ahead or how far it is turned at any given time.
This is also part of the anti slip control that vehicles have these days

The last one I was involved with was a Peugeot and it cost $900

Cheers
Wayne B

The 3 oldest luxes at work now have over 200k(2 of them) and the 3rd oldest has 160k and none of them have had the clock spring done? these are late 04 and early 05 models. can't answer that one.