Checking outer constant velocity joint: Audi A1
Step-by-step checking outer constant velocity joint for the Audi A1: 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 A1 (8X, 2010–2018)
- Renewed: circlip into hub
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- Before dismantling, mark position of ball hub in relation to ball cage and joint body with an electric scriber or oil stone (arrow).
📋 Procedure
- Before dismantling, mark position of ball hub in relation to ball cage and joint body with an electric scriber or oil stone (arrow).
- Swivel ball hub and ball cage.
- Take out balls one after the other.
- Turn the cage until the two rectangular openings (arrow) are level with the joint body.
- Lift out cage together with hub.
- Swivel one segment of hub into rectangular opening of cage.
- Pivot hub out of cage.
- Pack half of total grease quantity (40 g) into joint body.
- Fit cage with hub into joint body.
- Press in balls one after the other from opposite sides, taking care to re-establish original position of hub relative to cage and joint body.
- Fit new circlip into hub.
- Distribute remaining grease in boot.
- Checking function of constant velocity joint
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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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