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.
🧭 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
- Remove headlight
- Roughly remove all excess material of broken headlight retaining tab using a suitable tool (arrow) (e.g. side cutters).
- File (1) socket of headlight retaining tab (arrow) down flat at breakage point.
- Fit new headlight retaining tab (1) in (direction of arrow) into mounting on headlight.
- Screw securing bolt (arrow) into new headlight retaining tab.
- Install headlight .
- Check installation position so that shut lines/gaps between headlight and body are even.
- If the shut lines/gaps around the headlight are uneven, the installation position must be adjusted.
- Check functions of headlight.
- Checking and, if necessary, adjusting headlight setting .
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- 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
- Testing injection quantity, absence of leaks and spray pattern of injectors
- Testing data exchange between engine control unit, ABS control unit and gearbox control unit
- Testing Motronic current supply relay -J271 – Audi 1.8
- Checking lambda probe heating -Z29 for lambda probe downstream of catalytic converter
- Remove cylinder head - Engine codes AEB, AJL – Audi 1.8
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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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