Removing and installing ashtray (front): Audi A4 B6/B7
Step-by-step removing and installing ashtray (front) for the Audi A4 B6/B7: 11 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 A4 B6/B7 (8E)
📋 Procedure
- Pull radio approx. 10 mm out of the radio slot Radio, telephone, navigation91.
- Remove air conditioning system operating and display unit E87Air conditioning system87.
- Open ashtray (front).
- Take insert out of ashtray (front).
- On vehicles with manual gearbox: Prise out gearshift cover upwards and detach gear lever boot .
- On vehicles with automatic gearbox: Prise out gearshift cover upwards .
- Unscrew bolts (2) on ashtray.
- Lift out ashtray (front).
- Unplug electrical connector.
- Disengage trim (3) from ashtray.
- Unclip storage compartment trim (4).
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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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