No, that's not the way round to do it. You won't get to the speaker connections that way. Standard speakers in the door are plastic riveted in so you'll have to drill out those to get to the rear of the speaker. After you've removed the door card, and all the stuff that's on the door card -- levers and switches
Start with the rear of the headunit. Fingers under the bottom of the surround (only fingers, it's very thin alley) The two bottom clips will eventually click out. Remove the airbag bulb and bulb holder from the surround without disconnecting the wires (otherwise you run the risk of getting an airbag fault needing VCDS to clear) The surround's now out of the way. There's four T10 screws holding the headunit in place, remove. You will now be able to gently slide out the headunit. And you can then see whether the connections have been made properly by the large black connector with lever on it. Or just taped together as some do
These standard Passat door speakers just don't go faulty for no reason.
Removing the door card is a pain and you'll probably break one or more of the door card clips as well coz there's a special VW tool, that comresses the shaft teeth on them. You can use a twisted coat hanger, but you run the risk of (a) cut hands, (b) breaking the clips