How to repair VW wiring connectors. No special tools!

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.

[harpy]

Super helpful. No idea they had a locking collar. Been fighting one all day!

[doogyscoot]

Thanks for this. The tip about a hairclip to release the connector was really useful. Even my smallest tweezers were not thin enough to do it.

[Huppabubba]

Thank you so much for this Video !!! I ripped out my wires and wanted to repair it but had no idea how! Great Stuff !!!

[stringsnare]

THANK the connector pulled off the front brake pad sensor connector...googling and googling and found this.

[themostaveragegamer]

Thank you for uploading this video. I had an issue with my Pressure Sensor from my Audi and I have found a loose connection. this saved me a bunch. thank you

[sGuy.]

Thanks man, you're savior. The housing of my Coolant Temp Sensor on my Audi just disintegrated due to brittleness from extreme heat over the years. I'll be working on it as soon as the part arrives.

[tristynleetl]

Yeah this saved me lol. Was able to take apart a donor connector and fix my broken one. Saved me $15 or so

[iulianbica]

just fixed glow plug relay power pin that was corroded, making cold start impossible on a chevy cruze, thanks to your hairpin idea. Huge thanks for your video!

[kub]

thanks for this tip !! so much money spared with it !

[SanDiego_VDubLife]

Jaaaa!!! Youtube is a life saver. Thanks so much dude. That's EXACTLY what i needed help with!! My brake pad wear indicator got ripped out when my caliper fell while i was changing my upper strut mount. it was a dumb mistake because i knew i should have secured my caliper before doing any work in case it fell and sure enough, it fell. Your the best. Life saver!

[chertog_of_Veles]

Thanks a lot KIND OF MAN! You are incredible! From Ukraine with love!

[DG-qekw]

This video is a life saver thanks for uploading my friend

[skymoo]

Lifesaver. Just broke a connector myself so this was very handy to help me repair mine. Thanks very much.

[biffanb]

One of the best vids I've ever watched.

[anavenezuela]

Dude... dude... holy god dude...
Looks, I have a bmw E36 and the last night works with this in my wire harness ok?
Don't exist any vid of this about bmw, and start my process.
Cut with a dremel a old conector and looks under de conexion clip a bit plastic pin that makes don't out the conection, are terrible!!!!
Right...
Now its ok, after three days eating my brain was can out pins of conector, but was be a terrific problem for a lot time, wow seriously.
First have destroy the bit plastic pin for rear conector, and after put the two bars and found the clips, after this, its possible outing the conexions pins of my hareness.
Thanks for your vid, was very interesting, easy and cheap!
Sorry my bad english, greatings!

[wilofgood]

Merci pour ce super tuto qui va nous permettre de réparer le problème des connecteurs sur les Renault trafic.

[juhaseppanen]

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.

[MikkoRantalainen]

Great tips. It would have been even better to show where the hairpin is supposed to touch the connector metal part to get it to release. The connector has small metal bits slightly bent outwards and the hairpin is used to push those outwards bent part back towards the metal body of the connector. Sometimes those outward bent parts also may a bit loose and the metal part of the connector starts to slide backwards when you try to attach the connector. Then you just take the connector apart, carefully bent the part that sticks outwards (needle pin seems good for this) to make it slightly more outwards and put the parts together again.

[eme]

Thanks, 20minutes and connector repaired!

[firoznanji]

Excellent video ! I have a VW Polo, these connectors always seem to break. Now I know how to repair them ! Thank You.