Manually releasing parking brake — AUDI
Manually releasing parking brake on Audi: 9 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.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ Risk of accident!Before removing parking brake motor, secure vehicle to prevent it from rolling. — Release parking brake.
- Switch off ignition.
- Remove rear wheel Running gear, axles, steering44Wheels, tyres.
- Disconnect electrical connector (3) for parking brake motor.
- Open clip (2) and move electrical wiring for pad wear indicator clear.
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Detach parking brake motor (1) from brake caliper.
- Take off seal.
- Use socket TX45 (arrow) to turn drive shaft back until brake is released. [Note: Install parking brake motor after fault has been rectified .]
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Removing and installing wiper blades, vehicles without joint-free windscreen wipers
- Checking and adjusting angle of incidence of wiper blades, vehicles without joint-free windscreen wipers
- Removing and installing right rear window wiper motor, vehicles with rear wing doors
- Removing and installing gap cover of steering column
- Removing and installing dash panel middle trim, Transporter
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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