Sprung headrest

[fruzellapb]

Glad to hear you were not injured.

See attached.

so I followed your instructions and I was able to meet the two pieces together and even heard a snap but it didn't hold. There doesn't seem to be any broken pieces. What am I doing wrong?

 

[Jaybird93001]

My Drivers side headrest popped for no apparent reason. I tried to rest using the information on this forum...No luck.
I noticed many broken plastic parts on the inside. I have since gutted the headrest so that the two halves go back together.
I used velcro to keep them together. I have moved the headrest to the passenger side until I can find a replacement.

 

[fraggtastic]

Glad to hear you were not injured.

See attached.

Thanks, going to try it tomorrow.

 

[Genny46PM]

Hi all. I recently backed my genesis lightly into a tree. There was no damage but the head restraints deployed. I gave the car to the dealership to reset them, and later that day they called me and said that a piece was broken in one of the restraints and they had to replace the whole thing with a new part. Does that sound legit?

That sounds right. I was rear ended quite hard a few years ago and both headrest deployed. The body shop had to replace both headrests as plastic parts broke and couldn't reset.

 

[Filtersrus]

Perfect fix!! Thank you!!!

 

[Imsokb]

Thanks for the information on reset.
I believe that I inadvertently reset the latch and would like to know if there is any way of releasing it . The action of pushing the headrest back into placed worked however I assume I failed to push sufficiently to engage the latch.
Any help would be appreciated

Any luck?

 

[G-947781]

Hi all. I recently backed my genesis lightly into a tree. There was no damage but the head restraints deployed. I gave the car to the dealership to reset them, and later that day they called me and said that a piece was broken in one of the restraints and they had to replace the whole thing with a new part. Does that sound legit?

Yes! Mine deployed and pieces of plastic fell out of both mine. My passenger one deployed while I was driving and my passenger one deployed 1 year later just sitting at a stop light.

 

[Psnapp]

I do have one quetion about these head restraints. Hyundai advertises that these are "electronic active head restraints", and because they are electronic they react faster than the mechanical versions. If you read the TSB that Dimitry sent showing how to reset the headrests after they have sprung, it is hard to see how they are electronic. You remove the headrest from the seat, with apparently no wires attached, and you press the headreset back together until the springs re-engage.

There is apparently a sensor in the rear of the car that senses the rear impact, but I don't see how the headrests themselves are electronic. How does the sensor trigger the headrests? Just curious!

Yes. I did the same thing and just had a super bright idea and figured this out...so in the bottom of one of the posts on the headrest you can see two contacts where it connects with the car when attached to the seat...well, I took a small piece of 2x speaker wire and attached one end to each contact in the post and one end to the positive and negative on a 9v battery. Latch posed instantly. Seat is back in order now!

 

[chromedome]

Yes. I did the same thing and just had a super bright idea and figured this out...so in the bottom of one of the posts on the headrest you can see two contacts where it connects with the car when attached to the seat...well, I took a small piece of 2x speaker wire and attached one end to each contact in the post and one end to the positive and negative on a 9v battery. Latch posed instantly. Seat is back in order now!

Thanks for the 9V battery suggestion. Although it didn’t work for me, it gave me the idea to pull out an old 12V power supply, cut off the end, strip the wires, and touch them to the bottom of the post. The solenoid activated, I pushed back the locking mechanism, and was able to reset the headrest (on the floor with both knees on it). The other headrest was a little easier. Last time that happened, I bought two new headrests for $1200. Gah! If I had known!

 

[tmcown]

Glad to hear you were not injured.

See attached.

Wow, that's awesome. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks a million, Terry

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[Gunkk]

https://genesisowners.com/genesis-forum/attachments/headrest-pdf.13053/

 

[tmcown]

Wow, that's awesome. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks a million, Terry

Hey Sal, your help paid off. I got both headrests reset. Thanks again, Terry

 

[tmcown]

https://genesisowners.com/genesis-forum/attachments/headrest-pdf.13053/

Thanks, It worked. Both head rests are reset.

 

[Gunkk]

good deal!

 

[Laterbrok1]

https://genesisowners.com/genesis-forum/attachments/headrest-pdf.13053/

Is this a broken link? It’s not working..,

 

[itpastor]

It shouldn't be this hard to get the file: For anyone that needs it. here's a direct link to the headrest.pdf:
Headrest PDF

 

[Taylorr]

I do have one quetion about these head restraints. Hyundai advertises that these are "electronic active head restraints", and because they are electronic they react faster than the mechanical versions. If you read the TSB that Dimitry sent showing how to reset the headrests after they have sprung, it is hard to see how they are electronic. You remove the headrest from the seat, with apparently no wires attached, and you press the headreset back together until the springs re-engage.

There is apparently a sensor in the rear of the car that senses the rear impact, but I don't see how the headrests themselves are electronic. How does the sensor trigger the headrests? Just curious!

The sensor in the rear of the car senses when a strong enough impact has happened to require the headrests to deploy to get your head in the correct position should the front air bags deploy, also to keep your head from whipping around and getting whiplash, so the whole system is considered electronic even with some parts being spring loaded, since the trigger that activates the spring to release and pop open itself is an automatic trigger from the sensor in the back. The headrests also have a two pronged electrical spot at the bottom of the metal ends, and this gets the electrical signal which triggers a clip inside the headrest to open, deploying the system. This is what you have to re-clip, and sometimes you have to use a battery and alligator clips to zap these sensors to reset them and release the clip to close everything. Without that sensor the headrests would never get the signal to release! Hope that (in my case when mine deployed they helped a little, but also kind of pushed my head to the side and hurt me a bit. I also don’t think they can be too fancy considering my passenger headrest deployed without a passenger in the car, newer cars usually sense when there’s not another passenger and turn those features off)