Hi, can anybody tell me how to remove the connector on the driver's door handle of my Superb II 2010 ?

 

The KESSY system has gone faulty and ODB eleven is pointing me towards the driver's door KESSY aerial. I want to get this 3C0973704 connector off to help with diagnosis, but I don't want to damage it by forcing. I've looked at ALL the Youtube videos for VW type connectors, but this one is different. On the normal VW type 'D' connector you have to push in the connector before you can pull the release tab. On this connector, if you look at the photo of it in-situ in my door, you can see that the connector is hard up against a plastic stop on the other mating side of the connector so you can't 'compress' the joint before you release the tab. On the other stock photos that I have attached you can see that the red release tab always seems to be pushed in all on non-inserted connectors. On my inserted connector photo, the red tab is pulled back, so the logical thing would seem to be to slide the tab in along the axis of the connector so it looks like the other stock photos, however, it just won't budge. It probably isn't helped by me reaching through the speaker hole to try to do this with one hand 😞 . Maybe I need to take the door handle out (if I can) so I can get access with two hands ? Anybody done this before ? 

Well, after solving it, I will reply to my own problem in case anyone else has a similar issue. I found a good video here. 

 

 

(Yes, I know it is for an Enyaq, but I could find one for a Superb, and it is exactly the same)

 

My connector had the red sliding part stuck in the open position. I suspect that it was like that from new or broken in the past by someone else. I had to lift up a little tab where the connector joins to the handle, and then it just popped off. The red slider seems to slide perfectly when the connector is unplugged, but jams 'open' and not able to operate the tab when the connector is pushed on the handle.

 

Anyway, as a side issue, once I did get the connector off, my Kessy instability problem went away. I suspect that my driver's door handle Kessy part is broken, but I'm not going to buy a new one (for a 13 year old car), and I'm guessing that a secondhand one might have a limited life, so I'm happy to live with the central locking buttons on my kebfobs. Interesting, the boot/hatchback kessy is still working :-). I've got the same kessy fault on ODB-eleven as I had before the disconnection (open-circuit on the drivers door handle), so I'm fine with that.