Removing and installing centre console storage compartment (split centre armrest) — AUDI
Removing and installing centre console storage compartment (split centre armrest) on Audi: 10 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A8 D3 (4E, 2002–2010)
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition.
- Swivel centre armrest (5) upwards.
- Detach upper support trim (4).
- Unscrew bolts (6) (2x).
- Detach centre armrest (5) from lower support (8).
- Unclip grommet (3).
- Unclip storage compartment (1).
- Swivel storage compartment upwards and at the same time pull it in direction of travel out of centre console (10) / extension for centre console (11).
- Unplug connector on vehicles with handset cradle (2).
- Take out storage compartment (1).
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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.
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