Please help 2008 chevy 1ton

[guest2008]

hello, i am new to this website. the company truck i have has 2 problems. i need to know how to reset the airbag light and the exhaust filter light comes up all the time. the truck is in the oil field so it does a lot of idiling. any help would be greatly appreciated

[guest2008]

sorry i guess i should have also said it has the duramax diesel in it. thanks again

[guest2008]

bump........

[retired2001]

Welcome! Wish I could help, but don't have any experience w/Duramax. There are several diesel folks on here so maybe they can shed some light on the subject. Good luck!

[Steve]

What caused the airbag light to go off? The light will reset when the initial problem is fixed. It could be a bad sensor, a loose connection, or it may be ready to explode. Or maybe it already has and it's out of the truck?

[BigRedChevy]

I don't know about the airbag, but you exhaust filter is due to the excessive idling. The dpf can not go into regen mode unless you are going over 30 mph. It ussually take a few minutes for it to finish the regen. There was also a update that you may be needing to get flashed into the ecm. These trucks with all of the emmission stuff on them really are not meant to be idled anymore. You could also look at getting a PPE programmer. They have a option on there where you can force a regen to clean the filter.

[guest2008]

thank you everyone for the help. im glad to know a guest gets some smart ass answers but i guess you get that with every forum. big chevy thank you for trying to help. my company wont buy a programmer, so they can keep fixing it or buy like and 07 or 06 with low miles so it dont matter anymore. once again thanks chevy