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Repair Procedures: Removal

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  1. Disconnect the negative (-) battery terminal.
  2. Remove the crash pad lower panel.

    Refer to "CRASH PAD ".

  3. Remove the BCM (A) after removing the nuts, connectors and antenna cable.
Fig 1: Identifying BCM
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