Removing and installing bearing bush: Audi A1
Step-by-step removing and installing bearing bush for the Audi A1: 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 A1 (8X, 2010–2018)
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Special tools named: locking pin
📋 Procedure
- Remove dash panel cover (driver side) General body repairs, interior68Shelves / trim panels; Removing and installing dash panel cover (driver side).
- Remove bolt (2).
- Detach intermediate steering shaft (1) from steering column (arrow) and place to one side.
- Remove crash bar General body repairs, interior70Central tube for dash panel; Exploded view - central tube for dash panel.
- Remove locking pin (3) of operating rod for clutch master cylinder; to do so, release catch using an 8 mm socket (item 1).
- Swivel clutch pedal towards rear.
- Turn plunger of clutch master cylinder so that recesses (1) and pin (2) are visible.
- Remove bearing bush (A) from recesses (1).
- Turn plunger of clutch master cylinder so that recesses (1) and pin (2) are visible.
- Insert bearing bush (A) into recesses (1) and pivot into position.
- Install over-centre spring .
Other AUDI procedures
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- 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
- Removing gearbox - vehicles with 2.0 ltr. TDI engine (T0N, T1I)
- Draining fuel tank – Audi Q5
- Removing and installing fuel gauge senderG – Audi A8 D4
- Removing and installing radiator - Audi RS 6/RS 7 – Audi
- Removing and installing roof aerial R216 – Audi A8 D3 · 2 torque figures
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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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