Technical doblo airbag ring / clock spring disconnected

[SAABstu]

I need to replace the airbag ring on my 2007 doblo cargo. A fairly simple job it seemed.... However i have tried and tried and cannot for the life of me remove the airbag from the steering wheel. So i've hit a brick wall and am going to have to drive it to a garage and get them to do it.

The two pin connector where the airbag ring connects to the van's loom is broke (hence why im changing it).
So i have to drive the van with it disconnected. Is this safe to do so (apart from the obvious point of the airbag not working). Will it trigger a fault that then has to be cleared by someone with the correct diagnostic tool? Can I get around that by pulling the airbag fuse?

Thanks in advance.

 

[SAABstu]

Ok.

Lets scrub that and stick to the basics.

Can anybody advise how to remove the airbag of a 2007 doblo cargo.

Fuse for airbag has been pulled, clock spring is disconnected from the loom and battery has currently been disconnected for the last 5 days.

Really dont want to re-connect the battery to drive to a garage just so they can press a spring clip to release the airbag for me.

I have the steering wheel with the two small rubber grommets on either side.

 

[SAABstu]

got all of the above done yesterday.

Somehow my dad got the airbag off with the screwdriver through the grommet holes and me pulling it forward. A case of brute force and ignorance, rather than figuring out the technique.

Steering wheel was held in with a system that I'd not seen on any of the online guides. There were 2 very thin (not much thicker than washers) nuts stacked on top of one another on the spline. These had some sort of metal clasp type washer clamping them together. I had to bend all the splines off (they all broke off in the end) to get a 22mm socket on the top nut, then after much cursing managed to get the 2nd nut off with an old AF socket.

New airbag ring fitting was straight forward.