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Installing repair kit for headlight housing — AUDI

Installing repair kit for headlight housing on Audi: 10 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.

10 steps

🧭 Before you start

Fits: platform codes 2EA, 2ED, 2EH, 2EX, 2EB, 2EE, 2EK, 2FC, 2FF, 2FL, 2FZ, 2FG, 2FM

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  • If the shut lines/gaps around the headlight are uneven, the installation position must be adjusted.

📋 Procedure

  1. Remove headlight
  2. Roughly remove all excess material of broken headlight retaining tab using a suitable tool (arrow) (e.g. side cutters).
  3. File (1) socket of headlight retaining tab (arrow) down flat at breakage point.
  4. Fit new headlight retaining tab (1) in (direction of arrow) into mounting on headlight.
  5. Screw securing bolt (arrow) into new headlight retaining tab.
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  1. Install headlight .
  2. Check installation position so that shut lines/gaps between headlight and body are even.
  3. If the shut lines/gaps around the headlight are uneven, the installation position must be adjusted.
  4. Check functions of headlight.
  5. Checking and, if necessary, adjusting headlight setting .

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Workshop data on this page last updated 20 Sep 2026.