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ConnWiz:
Aptiv (former Delphi) and Yazaki both make the female connector. However, the pcb header is only produced by Yazaki. There is no mating connector that has pluggable male terminals unless someone is making it in the aftermarket. Many OEMs make it very difficult for the aftermarket to tie into the CAN circuits.

Producing a 3D model of the male connector is not possible. These 0.064 mm terminals are very small. Even if I could provide you with the cavity detail, the 3D printing technology is not there to provide the locking details for the terminals.

I have worked with many up-fitters who are trying to tie into the CAN circuits to create a plug-n-play system for their customers. Your best bet would be to develop an adapter harness using the existing pcb header in order for your customers to unplug the OEM harness and connect up your system. I can help you access the components you will need if you decide to go this route.
Scrts:
Many times, it might be a custom connector. I work for an automotive company and we mold our own male connectors while female is available off-the-shelf from a number of different suppliers.
endlessmind:

--- Quote ---Your best bet would be to develop an adapter harness using the existing pcb header
--- End quote ---

Do you mean getting the female one and add own harness to it?
But I would still have the issue with connecting the car harness into my harness due to it having the female one, right?
ConnWiz:
Here is a very basic proposal. It would eliminate the need for you or your customer to cut any OEM wires. A very basic and small pcb could be made with double 10 way header connectors. Your customer would simply disconnect the 10 way connector (13842310) from the LIN module and plug it into the pcb adaptor and your harness is plugged into the other end of the adaptor. Your system would connect back to the LIN module with the same 10 way (13842310) connector. Sorry for the basic diagram. I hope you can follow it.
endlessmind:
Ah, okay.

I misunderstood  this:

--- Quote ---There is no mating connector that has pluggable male terminals unless someone is making it in the aftermarket.
--- End quote ---


I read it as there is no male terminal, but you meant that is a male terminal but only PCB mounted, right?

PCB mounted is fine.

Most of our system is on a separate PCB, we only need to connect to this specific harness
to get data from the steering wheel button for media control as well as from the central console (Car models in question is Volvo C30, C70, S40 II and V50 and a few others).

The steering wheel button uses LIN for the communication and the central console uses CAN.
We have a smal PCB done that we can splice into the cars harness, but that is not very user friendly.
Having the male connector as PCB mount only is no problem, will only require a adjustment of the case of the pcb.  :)
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