discovered water ingress and corosion in my door wiring loom connector and after cleaning it up with no effect was advised to check a particular wire. sure enough this wire (red with yellow stripe in middle row) was broken inside the connector.

got 2nd hand one today so now I need to remove the broken pin from the original and then solder the new wire with good pin onto the loom but am struggling to get the old broken bit out!!

there's a purple plastic piece that's slides over a bit but after that I'm at a dead end 

any suggestions much appreciated 

what part is it i might be able to chop the connector out of my car im breaking for you then just solder the cables together

Hi,

These are fiddly. You're spot on with the purple bit, it is a retainer and must be out of it's normal locked position to allow the connector clips to be removed from the plug housing.

If you look face on in that pic, there are plus-sign shaped holes. Unwrap a paper clip into a U shape and insert the 2 loose ends into the plus-sign slots vertically next to the pin. i.e. above and below the pin as you face it in that picture.

If you look at your new connector you'll see how the shape of the connector forms lugs that will clip one way into a housing then not return. By pushing in the paper clip against these formed lugs you are squeezing them in. This force alone should just pop the connector out, but if it doesnt a wee tug on the wire will definitely set it free.

I did a horrible job explaining that but i hope it makes sense!

Hi,

These are fiddly. You're spot on with the purple bit, it is a retainer and must be out of it's normal locked position to allow the connector clips to be removed from the plug housing.

If you look face on in that pic, there are plus-sign shaped holes. Unwrap a paper clip into a U shape and insert the 2 loose ends into the plus-sign slots vertically next to the pin. i.e. above and below the pin as you face it in that picture.

If you look at your new connector you'll see how the shape of the connector forms lugs that will clip one way into a housing then not return. By pushing in the paper clip against these formed lugs you are squeezing them in. This force alone should just pop the connector out, but if it doesnt a wee tug on the wire will definitely set it free.

I did a horrible job explaining that but i hope it makes sense!

thanks mate

am trying it at the moment but not doing very well. doesn't seem to want to budge 

can get the bigger ones out but the one i need out is a small one and i cant budge em...getting really annoying 

can get the bigger ones out but the one i need out is a small one and i cant budge em...getting really annoying î™î™î™

That's a pain when you say it's not budging, are you not able to get enough force behind the paperclip before it gives way, or is it just like it's not doing anything at all?

Another approach, i've never tried but should work, is to apply brute force in the middle of the metal pin -- if you pushed a small jewellers flat blade screwdriver between the legs / jaws / prongs of the wee metal clip, then just apply brute force, that *should* force it free?

That's a pain when you say it's not budging, are you not able to get enough force behind the paperclip before it gives way, or is it just like it's not doing anything at all?

Another approach, i've never tried but should work, is to apply brute force in the middle of the metal pin -- if you pushed a small jewellers flat blade screwdriver between the legs / jaws / prongs of the wee metal clip, then just apply brute force, that *should* force it free?

got it!!

what a mission. main problem was just no room either side of the pin. ended up jamming two pins out of a sowing box down either side. they snapped off so had to push them down bit more then finally grabbed the wire with my nashers any even though it didn't want to it jumped out î„î„î„

thanks for the heads up!!

now I just gottaget the broken bit out of the connector in the door and solder this bit on.

Stupid thing is the guy in the breakers yard could of just disconnected the whole loom instead of cutting it

anyway too dark now so hopefully sort it and see if it fixes anything tomorrow 

what part is it i might be able to chop the connector out of my car im breaking for you then just solder the cables together

thanks anyway mate

got a decent one in a breakers today. just got to swap good for bad now and hope it works

could do with maf,n75 and speaker cover off passenger door as I crushed mine couple weeks back.

unfortunately I'm in Dublin. your not planning a trip over are you?!? î•

update...

cut and soldered the good wire/pin onto my dodgy one and put everything back together and now my exterior mirror and my central locking are working again...happy days and thanks to fordfan for pointing me in the right direction. unfortunately the little courtesy light on the door and the led on the drivers door card beside open/locked button still arent working. checked fuses but they're ok so i think ill live with this for a while and get back to changing my wishbones

thanks to all for the help