Removing and installing centre armrest (front): Audi Q3
Step-by-step removing and installing centre armrest (front) for the Audi Q3: 12 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 Q3 (8U, 2011–2018); platform code 84
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- Make sure centre armrest and centre console engage properly in retaining tabs (A) and (B).
📋 Procedure
- Move front seats as far forwards as they will go.
- Remove cover (rear) for centre console .
- Equipment version with vent: Remove air duct for rear vent Heating, air conditioning87Air duct system; Removing and installing air ducts.
- Equipment version with telephone bracket R126: Disengage electrical connectors from centre armrest and move wiring clear.
- Equipment version with connection for external audio sources R199: Disengage electrical connector from centre armrest and move wiring clear.
- Unscrew nuts (1) for centre armrest.
- Remove bolts (1) and (2).
- Open centre armrest slightly and disengage retaining tabs (B) of centre console from centre armrest.
- Press centre console (rear) outwards at sides and off centre armrest; to do so, disengage centre console at retaining tabs (A).
- At the same time lift centre armrest (3) off studs by swivelling top of centre console to rear and take it out towards rear.
- Working from rear, insert centre armrest into centre console and at studs.
- Make sure centre armrest and centre console engage properly in retaining tabs (A) and (B).
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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.
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