Chevy Camaro airbags and seat belts, inspected and tested

What happens to your Camaro's module after a crash

The Chevrolet Camaro runs the SDM, GM's Sensing and Diagnostic Module, as the brain of its supplemental restraint system. It reads the impact sensors, decides whether to fire the front airbags and seat belt pretensioners, and the moment it commands a deployment, it writes that event into permanent memory. On a sports car that often sees harder impacts, that record is exactly what it sounds like.

That stored crash data is why the Camaro's airbag light stays on after an accident. The SDM reads its own deployment history, sets hard codes, and locks. A standard OBD2 scanner cannot erase it, because the data lives at the module level, not in the diagnostic memory a scan tool can clear. The light burns steady through every key cycle.

We take your original Camaro SDM in our shop, clear the locked crash data and hard codes, and return it reading factory-ready. It keeps its original GM calibration and your VIN, so it plugs back into your car and works on the first key cycle. You reinstall the same module GM built for that Camaro.