Removing and installing centre storage compartment: Audi A4 B8
Step-by-step removing and installing centre storage compartment for the Audi A4 B8: 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: Audi A4 B8 (8K, 2007–2015)
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- When installing, make sure all lugs have been fitted to seat bench frame and that centre storage compartment is fully engaged.
- Make sure there are no creases in the covers attached to the centre storage compartment.
📋 Procedure
- Remove seat bench .
- Disengage piping (2) at rear and on both sides from channel (arrow) of centre storage compartment (1).
- Unclip centre storage compartment (2) at seat bench frame (1)(arrow).
- Pull centre storage compartment forwards and disengage lugs at seat bench frame (1).
- Detach centre storage compartment from seat bench frame.
- When installing, make sure all lugs have been fitted to seat bench frame and that centre storage compartment is fully engaged.
- Start at rear centre when engaging cover in channel of centre storage compartment.
- When doing so, align cover piping with centre storage compartment and then clip cover into channel of centre storage compartment.
- Proceed in a similar manner with the side cover.
- Make sure there are no creases in the covers attached to the centre storage compartment.
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