The last few days my SRS warning light has been coming on in my car. It won't come on during every trip but during about 1/3. From my understanding the light counld be triggered by one of countless sensors in the system or the belt tensioners. Does anyone no how I could narrow down the list of possible culprits? I took a quick look in my factory service manual and the first step was to read the code with the scanner which I do not have. Will the trick of shorting the system and reading the blinks give me enough information? I wonder if I should just take it to the dealer and let them diagnose then replce the part myself, essentialy using them for their scanner.

 

After some searching it seems that I can take the car to autozone and they can pull the code. Is this true? Will is give me the exact/sensor component which I can then fix?

 

if you get the code it doesn't always mean there will be a part to replace.
Getting the code will help you to do a correct and accurate diagnose.
Every code has a diagnostic procedure on the honda interactive website.

 

Cool, thanks.