Checking metering adjuster N146: Audi 2.5 TDI (ACV, AGX, AHD, AHY, …)
Step-by-step checking metering adjuster N146 for the Audi 2.5 TDI: 16 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: platform codes 2DA, 2DB, 2DC, 2DD, 2DE, 2DF, 2DG, 2DH, 2DK, 2DL, 2DM
- Renewed: injection pump
📋 Procedure
- Press key ← twice.
- Press function "“06-End output”".
- Switch off ignition.
- Disconnect connector for metering adjuster (connection to injection pump metering system).
- Measure resistance between connector contacts 5+6 (1). Specification: 0.5...2.5 Ω
- Renew injection pump .
- Connect test boxV.A.G 1598/18 to control unit wiring harness .
- Check wiring between test box and connector (1) for open circuit referring to current flow diagram. Cable resistance: max. 1.5 Ω.
- Additionally check wires for short to one another, to vehicle earth and to battery positive. Specification: ∞ Ω.
- Renew diesel direct injection system control unit J248.
- Measure resistance between connector contacts 5+6 (1). Specification: 0.5...2.5 Ω
- Renew injection pump .
- Connect test box to control unit wiring harness .
- Check wiring between test box and connector (1) for open circuit referring to current flow diagram. Cable resistance: max. 1.5 Ω.
- Additionally check wires for short to one another, to vehicle earth and to battery positive. Specification: ∞ Ω.
- Renew diesel direct injection system control unit J248.
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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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