Exploded view - lower suspension links, swivel joint — AUDI
Exploded view - lower suspension links, swivel joint on Audi: factory workshop procedure. Full factory text, tools and checks.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the factory write-up, straight from real workshop data.
📋 Procedure
ℹ️ Torque figures below come verbatim from workshop data — always cross-check against your vehicle's factory manual before final tightening.
Exploded view - lower suspension links, swivel joint
Bolt
Always renew if removed
Guide link
Removing and installing
Chapter
Different versions (with conventional or hydraulic bonded rubber bush); for correct version, refer to
Electronic parts catalogue
Mixed installation is not permissible
Renewing conventional bonded rubber bush (65 mm ∅) for guide link
Chapter
Renewing hydraulic bonded rubber bush (75 mm ∅) for guide link
Chapter
Nut
70 Nm +180°
Always renew if removed
Vehicle must be in unladen position when tightening
Chapter
Wheel bearing housing
Bolt
40 Nm
Always renew if removed
Nut
Always renew if removed
Different versions; for correct version, refer to
Electronic parts catalogue
Note different nut versions and tightening torques
Anchor
After detaching guide link from wheel bearing housing, remove residual adhesive from thread of joint pin.
Swivel joint
Removing and installing
Chapter
Different versions; for correct version, refer to
Electronic parts catalogue
Note
Note installation position
Anchor
.
Insert swivel joint all the way onto contact surface on wheel bearing housing.
Nut
Always renew if removed
Different versions; for correct version, refer to
Electronic parts catalogue
Note different nut versions and tightening torques
Anchor
After detaching swivel joint from wheel bearing housing, remove residual adhesive from thread of joint pin.
Nut
90 Nm +90°
Always renew if removed
Vehicle must be in unladen position when tightening
Chapter
Track control link
Removing and installing
Chapter
Different versions; for correct version, refer to
Electronic parts catalogue
Renewing bush for track control link
Chapter
Bolt
Always renew if removed
Nut
9 Nm
Bolt
Always renew if removed
Nut
70 Nm +180°
Always renew if removed
Vehicle must be in unladen position when tightening
Chapter
Front left vehicle level sender -G78-; front right vehicle level sender -G289-
Always install senders of the same version
Remove/install and renew only as a complete assembly
Chapter
Lever of sender must face towards rear
Check basic setting of headlights if sender mountings are loosened
Electrical system
Rep. gr.
94
Headlights; Adjusting headlights
If, on vehicles with electronic damping control, the
vehicle level sender
has been removed and refitted or the linkage detached, the reference position must be re-adapted
Chapter
Vehicle diagnostic tester
.
If the reference position has been re-adapted on vehicles with lane departure warning, the
lane departure warning control unit
J759
must be recalibrated
Chapter
.
Bolt
20 Nm
Shock absorber fork
Nut versions for securing track control link and guide link
Hexagon flange nut
A
(M12) width across flats: 21 mm
Tightening torque: 145 Nm
Hexagon nut with washer
B
(M12) width across flats: 18 mm
Tightening torque: 110 Nm
Hexagon nut with washer
B
(M12) width across flats: 21 mm
Tightening torque: 120 Nm
Hexagon nut with washer
B
(M14) width across flats: 21 mm
Tightening torque: 140 Nm
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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