Removing and installing centre bumper cover mounting — AUDI
Removing and installing centre bumper cover mounting on Audi: 10 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: platform code 42
📋 Procedure
- Remove bumper cover (centre section) .
- Remove bumper cover (rear) .
- Unplug electrical connector for spoiler for rear lid.
- Detach electrical connector from bracket.
- To do so, press catch in direction of (arrow A) and pull electrical connector (1) out of bracket (2) in direction of (arrow B).
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Detach centre bumper mounting (1), simultaneously guiding out electrical connector for spoiler for rear lid.
- Adjust centre bumper cover mounting Gap widths at bumper cover (rear).
- Install bumper cover (rear) .
- Install bumper cover (centre section) .
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