The present invention provides a connecting element for releasably connecting a first and a second component particularly a lever with another lever or a brake pedal with the plunger rod in a motor vehicle. ECMs are inserted into the transport stream by detecting random access points in the encoded programming and inserting the ECM packets in a window just ahead of the RAP. Then, a soft-program voltage, which is opposite in polarity to the erase voltage applied in an erase operation, is applied to all memory cells, thereby setting all memory cells out of an over-erased state. A pilot signal is transmitted on each serving cell, the pilot signal related to the at least a portion of the common multicast transmission on each serving cell. In combination, these restraints act to retain the module in the slot.