Splice a new ABS wheel speed sensor connector pig tail to old or instal full pigtail?

Is it easier to open the wheel cowl and instal the new pigtail into the ECU bus in the rear wheel well or splice the new pigtail to the old one without opening up the wheel well cowl? The terminal connection on my current pigtail was uncrimped from the terminal that connects to the wheel hub speed sensor after an aggressive wheel hub removal.

Is soldering a must during these type of splices?

How difficult is just putting the new pigtail in without the splicing route, I feel like the splicing route is cheap lazy way and susceptible to problems in the future?

 

yeah the wheel well cowl has its own dedicated hole for it with a bunch of rubber like weather long material that will have to be ripped out. I don’t have a solder nor do I know what the hell i’d be soldering and why instead of wrapping it with electrical taping a bunch like an actual splice job requires.

 

Sounds about right, so asking a mechanic to do it the lazy way is probably out of the question haha but I bought a full plug and play pigtail from rock auto and just noticed rock auto also sells halfsies for splicing only lol damnit should’ve gotten that one, maybe I will but I’ve waited for too long and been driving with no ABS, traction control of regen braking and can see it’s stressing out other parts of the car that take on the weight of what those inactive parts do like engine running more to invert energy instead of getting it from regen braking and front brakes and suspension is probably taking a hit without its friends in the back doing anything although I see pad wear in the new rotors in the rear, I doubt that’s from just using the parking brake so I’m confused if back brakes do activate on hard brakes or what exactly is going on there maybe that’s just the wear from the new pads sliding over them lol who knows but I’ve been driving like a stereotypical Prius driver since they don’t work for the past month until I fix that sensor connector. Thanks for the motivation but yeah I’ll try to do the full plug and play first if not then maybe I’ll consider splicing a 37 dollar pigtail lol the splice version are only 10 dollars cheaper so oh well