Removing and installing clutch pedal with extension spring - vehicles up to model year 2014 — AUDI
Removing and installing clutch pedal with extension spring - vehicles up to model year 2014 on Audi: 16 steps.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A1 (8X, 2010–2018)
- Renewed: pivot pin
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- Right side of illustration (arrows) is only relevant for installation.
- Retainers (A) will be destroyed when you do this.Renew pivot pin.
- Renew pivot pin.Grease mountings for extension spring.
📋 Procedure
- Remove dash panel cover (driver side) General body repairs, interior68Shelves / trim panels; Removing and installing dash panel cover (driver side).
- Remove crash bar General body repairs, interior70Central tube for dash panel; Exploded view - central tube for dash panel.
- Disengage extension spring using hook3438. [Note: Right side of illustration (arrows) is only relevant for installation.]
- To release operating rod for clutch master cylinder, pull clutch pedal slightly towards passenger compartment.
- Press both sides of retaining clip inwards using pliers T10005(arrows).
- Using 8 mm Allen key (item 1), turn pivot pin for clutch pedal anti-clockwise (arrow) until ears (B) are horizontal. [Note: Retainers (A) will be destroyed when you do this.Renew pivot pin.]
- Move clutch pedal back and forth to pull out pivot pin.
- Remove clutch pedal. [Note: Renew pivot pin.Grease mountings for extension spring.]
- Bring clutch pedal into position at clutch master cylinder.
- Insert new pivot pin in mounting bracket and clutch pedal.
- Using 8 mm Allen key (item 1), turn pivot pin for clutch pedal clockwise (arrow) until ears (A) are vertical.
- Engage clutch pedal at mounting on master cylinder operating rod.
- Hook in extension spring.
- Insert vibration damper so that 2nd spring coil (right arrow) is at recess (left arrow) (in illustration) of vibration damper.
- Install crash bar General body repairs, interior70Central tube for dash panel; Exploded view - central tube for dash panel.
- Install dash panel cover (driver side) General body repairs, interior68Shelves / trim panels; Removing and installing dash panel cover (driver side).
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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