Checking current consumption — AUDI
Checking current consumption on Audi: 10 steps, engines CHGA. 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.
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📐 26 workshop diagrams for CHGA
Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.
📋 Procedure
- Remove bench seat General body repairs, interior72Rear seats; Removing and installing bench seat.
- Remove cover from the fuel delivery unit.
- First check that the connector (arrow) is fitted securely by pulling connector without pressing catch. The connector can cause a fault if it has not been fitted correctly.
- Pull off connector.
- Check contacts on plug and on fuel delivery unit for damage.
- Connect test instrument adapter/DSO (5-pin)VAS 5565 to connector and fuel delivery unit.
- Connect pick-up clamp (A) to red terminal with lettering "“pick-up clamp”" for test instrument adapter/DSO (5-pin)VAS 5565.
- Start engine and run at idling speed.
- Measure current consumption of fuel pump. [Note: The starting current for the fuel pump can be briefly above specifications when starting the engine.If the fault in the fuel system is not always evident, the check can also be carried out during a road test. A 2nd person is required to do this, however.]
- If the fuel pump is defective, renew fuel delivery unit .
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- Removing and installing fill-stop valve
- Checking vacuum unit in intake manifold upper part for leaks
- Checking injectors for leaks
- Checking vacuum unit in intake manifold upper part for leaks
- Removing and installing toothed belt · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
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TorqFix was built by a mechanic — after a 2,700 km drive with five roadside repairs that no diagnostic tool could explain.
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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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