Removing and installing belt guide (rear right and left) — AUDI
Removing and installing belt guide (rear right and left) on Audi: 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)
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- When installing belt guide (1), make sure both washers (3) are beneath belt guide.
📋 Procedure
- Remove side padding .
- Remove C-pillar trim .
- Remove three-point seat belt (rear) .
- If fitted, take foam pad (4) out of bottom part of guide.
- Working from underneath, slacken both cross-head bolts (2).
- Detach belt guide (1).
- When installing belt guide (1), make sure both washers (3) are beneath belt guide.
- Press belt guide into fastener so that retaining tab (5) engages audibly.
- Screw cross-head bolts (2) back in again.
- Re-insert foam pad (4) into belt guide (1).
- Re-install all other components removed earlier.
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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.
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