Removing and installing ashtray (front) / storage compartment (front) — AUDI
Removing and installing ashtray (front) / storage compartment (front) 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: Audi Q7 (4L, 2005–2015)
📋 Procedure
- Remove selector lever position display Y26Electrical system96.
- Remove centre console storage compartment .
- Reach through opening for centre console storage compartment and press off mounting frame (1) for multimedia system operating unit E380 upwards (arrow).
- Reach through opening for selector lever boot and lift off mounting frame (1) for multimedia system operating unit E380(arrow).
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Carefully take out ashtray (front) (2) towards rear.
- Unplug electrical connectors for ashtray light (1) and cigarette lighter at ashtray (front).
- Unscrew bolts (1, 3).
- Carefully take out storage compartment (front) (2) towards rear.
- Press mounting frame for multimedia system operating unit E380 into centre console until the catches engage fully.
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