ok, so I bought the Autel MD802 MaxiDiag Elite but I'm trying to plug in into the connector in my sprinter and the Autel connector won't go all the way in.
I played with it for an hour trying to push it in harder but still it doesn't want to...so I though, well I have to go to the scrap yard the next day, so i'll try there see if I can connect it into one of the 2 sprinter they have there. no luck! both connector there where exactly the same as me and it was not working. So I though maybe the cable they sent with the reader was wrong, so I went down to find a car to which it will fit...and it did fit in everyone I tried it in except for the sprinter.
huh!?
so I went with my second plan, I took a connector i could connect and a spare connector from a sprinter while i was there at the scrap yard, thinking I'll just have to swap the connector I took form the scrap yard and transplant it into my sprinter at home but removing the pins, and voila! it would be done! and I had the spare sprinter connector so I can figure out how to safely remove the pin from it before doing on my van. Sounds easy
well now I'm at home with both connector in my hand, been trying for the last 45 minutes to reach inside the connector with needles, small screwdriver, paperclips...name it! And I can't figure out how to remove the pins. there should be a little leg on the pin that i should be able to pry/press and the pin should come right off. I did that several tie to other type of connector, but this time I just can't do it :/
So now I don't really know what I should be doing!
anybody has ever run into a connector that won't connect?
I was thinking I could maybe cut the connector in my van and solder the good connector I have in, but the one I have only has 8 wire out of the 11 wire there is in the van, so that won't work unless i go back to the scrapyard and find a good connector with the correct amount of wire on it and I don't really want to have that kind of fix as this wouldn't be as neat!
I'm kinda lost now....
included picture of 1 and 2 the connector I have that I can't remove pins from
3 how it fit onto the Autel connector
4 how it should fit all the way in
I played with it for an hour trying to push it in harder but still it doesn't want to...so I though, well I have to go to the scrap yard the next day, so i'll try there see if I can connect it into one of the 2 sprinter they have there. no luck! both connector there where exactly the same as me and it was not working. So I though maybe the cable they sent with the reader was wrong, so I went down to find a car to which it will fit...and it did fit in everyone I tried it in except for the sprinter.
huh!?
so I went with my second plan, I took a connector i could connect and a spare connector from a sprinter while i was there at the scrap yard, thinking I'll just have to swap the connector I took form the scrap yard and transplant it into my sprinter at home but removing the pins, and voila! it would be done! and I had the spare sprinter connector so I can figure out how to safely remove the pin from it before doing on my van. Sounds easy
well now I'm at home with both connector in my hand, been trying for the last 45 minutes to reach inside the connector with needles, small screwdriver, paperclips...name it! And I can't figure out how to remove the pins. there should be a little leg on the pin that i should be able to pry/press and the pin should come right off. I did that several tie to other type of connector, but this time I just can't do it :/
So now I don't really know what I should be doing!
anybody has ever run into a connector that won't connect?
I was thinking I could maybe cut the connector in my van and solder the good connector I have in, but the one I have only has 8 wire out of the 11 wire there is in the van, so that won't work unless i go back to the scrapyard and find a good connector with the correct amount of wire on it and I don't really want to have that kind of fix as this wouldn't be as neat!
I'm kinda lost now....
included picture of 1 and 2 the connector I have that I can't remove pins from
3 how it fit onto the Autel connector
4 how it should fit all the way in
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