Adjusting parking brake, brake caliper FN 44 — AUDI
Adjusting parking brake, brake caliper FN 44 on Audi: 11 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T6 (7E)
📋 Procedure
- Handbrake lever in rest position.
- Raise vehicle.
- Unscrew one wheel bolt.
- Turn brake disc until adjustment nut of handbrake can be seen through wheel bolt hole.
- Insert screwdriver through hole in brake disc.
- Turn adjustment nut (A) against resistance of extension spring (B).
- Then, loosen adjustment nut by 6 teeth.
- Check free travel at handbrake lever .
- Tighten wheel bolts.
- Pull on handbrake lever by 2 to 3 notches.
- Pull on handbrake lever by 5 to 7 notches.
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The figures on this page come from manufacturer workshop documentation and are shown as they are. The page is assembled automatically from that data — it is not written by an AI. The AI works in the chat, where it answers for your specific car. It writes nothing here.
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