Xantia S1 Fusebox Repair - difficult to plug connector back in!

[Rhothgar]

Evening Citroen Chums,

Hope you are all keeping well.

Tracked an intermittent fault with the cigar lighter to the internal fuse box circuit board. Not too dissimilar to the S2 fuse box issue someone kindly advised on last year.

Well what a nightmare.

I suspect that when I refitted the dash after doing the heater matrix I may have trapped the loom.

For the life of me I cannot pull the orange connector down enough to clip it in!l and engage it. I just hope I haven’t broken the clip. I don’t want to keep tugging on the connector to try and free the loom as there are a lot of sharp edges in this area.

Can anyone tell me the proper way of accessing the fuse box connectors? Is it by dropping the dash forward? Surely not. Unclipping the red clip is surely the correct way.

[Rhothgar]

SOLVED!

With my current issue which was self-inflicted, what had happened with my 13 OR orange connector (the hardest to access) was that it was not staying seated. As I removed the fusebox for the 2nd or 3rd time, I realised the the silver plastic surround that sits at the top of the connector had slipped below the two security tangs which lock the connector in place thus keeping the locking tangs in a disengaged position!

Solution: Press the tangs in and waggle the silver plastic surround back to the top of the connector where it should be (closer to the wires - it had slid down more towards the fusebox side of connector when it was removed). NOTE: The two tangs should sit BELOW the silver plastic surround.

I should have taken a photo just in case someone else reads this and ever has the same problem.