A quick guide on how to repair a broken VW Audi Skoda Seat etc style wiring connector. These are very easily broken especially in hot areas of the engine bay.
For a simpler video on how to just undo them, see this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhjmtfyAjI
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Thanks for the helpfull video! Im trying to get my wires out of the connector, but the half circle/extra safety wont come all the way out! It stops half way out. My connector looks just like yours. Does it need to go all the way out? Tried pulling as hard as possible without breaking it… Thanks
Better yet, you can make a depining tool from old windshield wiper; use the U end of a wiper and grind it thin with a bench grinder, the metal is stronger and wont flex when you try to depin the pin.
Wow, excellent tip, thanks!
Thanks for helping understand my VW better!
i assumed that you were going to break the connector and show us how to removal it broken! smh!
Saved me big money thanks
Thanks!
It comes out for no time
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Is this the same clip that hold the vw mass airflow wire
Thanks so much. I got a connector's housing to be changed. vw beetle
Thanks man. Great video. Do you think you could upload one for the smaller harnesses such as fuel temp sensor. Mine wiggles and I know there's gotta be a way to take it apart but I can't see any pins holding it together
Great and really helpful video. Hairpin was free as I just cleaned up my daughter's room and found one. My real job was to extract the rear speaker wires out of my Passat car stereo plug as I got intermittent shorts to the speaker lines (due to bad connectors somewhere else). Apparently VW RCD300 models did not have any short protection as two units got destroyed with caps smoking, thankfully the RCD310 had better design.