When fitting new seats to my Octavia, I found that the seat airbag connector (the one which plugs into the floor) was broken

I've got a replacement from my local dealer for the princely sum of £2.22, but, being a total technical numpty, I have no idea how to remove the 3 wires from the old one and plug them into the new one

I'm sure it's probably food and drink to a sparky, so any 'idiot's guide' advice would be greatly appreciated

Pics of the connector can be seen below

Hi Bryan

will try to help you.

The new connector can be taken apart by pulling the orange part out.

In the old connector the wires are still in and they can be carefully pulled out of the connector. But dont just pull, if you look into the connector, you can see the silvery wire ends that are in the connector. On these silvery ends, there is always a part that will stop the wire from sliding out of the connector.

You will have to push that part in, to release the wire. If pushed in, you can carefully pull out the wire out of the old connector.

Do that to all the wires (after writing down the sequence they are fitted in the connector. You can find numbers on the connector that go with the holes) and than push them all into the new connector.

Hope I was clear enough, hard to describe something done by hand and eye.....

Cheers

Mike

Cheers Mike - that's clear enough even for me

Presumably after the wires are all in place in the new connector, the orange part needs to be pushed back in?

Yep, it will hold the plastic parts of the connector together.

Just managed to pull all the wires out of my passenger seat plug.

Before i try and put them back are the wires in the drivers seat the same colour and position as the ones in the passenger side. I assume if i get them wrong the airbag will go off.

When you put them in loop a elastic band round both sides to keep them under tension , did mine and Wardys and never seen a light again pain in the wotsits these connectors

I prefer Tesa tape. It holds connector together and provides some strain relief.

Are you guys talking about, as it were, pulling the two connectors tighter together so they don't slip apart and disconnect?! That's how it's reading and not knowing exactly how the warning system works, that sounds a nightmare if that's the case!

If so, why are they so loose after you reattach them, I don't get it?

If not, i'm lost as to what you're saying comes apart?

Nothing has come apart on mine, ive just ripped the 3 wires out of the plug on the seat side of the connector and dont know which way round they go. The wires are different colours either side of the plug so i cant match them that way.

If some one has a pic of the passanger connector they could upload id be gratefull.

Apologies for hijacking an old thread, but managed to safely remove the connector when I recently swapped the front passenger seat for a better one (also the yellow outer casing was slightly damaged and cracked (so wanted to make sure  everything was safe as can be, by replacing the outer casing)

 

Once you've popped out the orange tab from the connector as magic62 says above, I then used a paperclip opened out and inserted it into the small hole under each of the the thin metal connectors and left it there as this sufficiently lowered the small metal catch inside and I was able to remove the individual wires safely without damaging anything.  The paperclip can be removed and the process repeated for the next wire.  Hope this helps anyone, give me a shout if you need more info