Removing and installing bumper cover - vehicles up to model year 2014 — AUDI
Removing and installing bumper cover - vehicles up to model year 2014 on Audi: 20 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 A6/A7 C7 (4G, 2011–2018)
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- If fitted, electrical wiring harness must be routed out through body opening.
📋 Procedure
- Remove outer tail lights Electrical system94Tail light cluster; Removing and installing tail light cluster.
- Detach cover for luggage compartment side trim.
- Vehicles with towing bracket: Remove cable mounting bracket; leave cable inserted .
- If fitted, unplug electrical connector (1) at parking aid control unit J446, cut through cable tie and move wiring harness clear at bracket for control units (arrow).
- If fitted, unplug electrical connectors (2, 4).
- Push grommet (3) through to the outside.
- Unscrew nut (1) using socket T40078.
- Remove bolts (2).
- Unscrew bolts (1, 2, 3) from side sections of bumper cover.
- Press wheel housing liner slightly to the side and unscrew bolt (4).
- Insert hook T40207 in opening and pull upwards to release locking rail (5).
- Disengage side sections at side panel outwards.
- Detach bumper cover (6).
- If fitted, unplug electrical connector (1) from exhaust flap control unit.
- If fitted, electrical wiring harness must be routed out through body opening.
- Set down bumper cover on a soft surface.
- Plug in electrical connectors.
- Install cable mounting bracket .
- Install outer tail lights Electrical system94Tail light cluster; Removing and installing tail light cluster.
- On vehicles with lane change assist, lane change assist control unit J769/J770 must be re-calibrated Electrical system96Lane change assist; Calibrating lane change assist.
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- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
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- Removing and installing starter - vehicles with 3.0 ltr. TFSI and 3.2 ltr. FSI engine
- Removing and installing wheel bearing unit - front-wheel drive vehicles
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- Checking cooling output - vehicles with high-voltage system
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Who makes these pages, and how
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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