Checking function of ignition key removal lock: Audi A3
Step-by-step checking function of ignition key removal lock for the Audi A3: 13 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)
- Renewed: defective components check
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- It must be possible to shift selector lever to "„R, N, D or S“"
📋 Procedure
- Move selector lever to "„P“"
- Switch off ignition.
- Remove ignition key
- Use vehicle diagnostic tester to read out event memory
- Renew defective components
- Check and, if necessary, adjust selector lever cable
- Check connectors
- Insert ignition key
- Press brake pedal
- Switch on ignition
- It must be possible to shift selector lever to "„R, N, D or S“"
- Press brake pedal
- Move selector lever to "„P“"
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- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Removing and installing control motor for left side window defroster flap V409 with potentiometer G318 · 1 torque figures
- Removing and installing catalytic converter (right-side)
- Removing and installing windbreak mount
- Removing and installing retainers for right control motors (with a "“Low”" or "“Mid”" air conditioner)
- Checking operation of air quality sensor G238 – Audi A8 D4
Who makes these pages, and how
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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