Adjusting zero position for sliding/tilting sunroof: Audi A3
Step-by-step adjusting zero position for sliding/tilting sunroof for the Audi A3: 10 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: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
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- Glass sunroof panel has been removed in illustration.
📋 Procedure
- Remove bellows .
- Close sunroof.
- Push sunroof headliner completely to rear.
- Remove sunroof motor .
- Align guide pins (1) (left and right), so that they are centrally aligned with marks (2) on slotted guides (mechanical zero position). [Note: Glass sunroof panel has been removed in illustration.]
- Plug in electrical connector (4) for voltage supply at removed sunroof motor.
- Plug in electrical connector (1) at switch for sunroof operation (in interior light).
- Use rotary control to select "“roof opened”" or "“roof tilted”".
- Move rotary control to "“roof closed”" position.
- Install motor in this position with sunroof closed (mechanical zero position).
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