Removing and installing Bowden cable with remote release handle — AUDI
Removing and installing Bowden cable with remote release handle 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 A5 (8T, 2007–2016)
📋 Procedure
- Remove seat bench .
- Remove backrest .
- Remove side trim .
- Remove remote release handle (1).
- Unfasten cable clip (2).
- Detach retainers (3) (2x) with wiring harness.
- Detach tabs (4) from studs (5).
- Open lid (1) of connector point (2).
- Disengage cable support bracket (3).
- Disengage Bowden cable (4) at connector point (5) and detach.
- The Bowden cable does not have to be adjusted.
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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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