Removing and installing coin holder: Audi A8 D3
Step-by-step removing and installing coin holder for the Audi A8 D3: 14 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 A8 D3 (4E, 2002–2010)
Don't miss
- Take particular care when unfastening clip at end of trim panel closest to driver.
- If necessary, use hook3438 to pull air vent out of opening.
- When fitting trim panel (1) with switch panel make sure both catches are inserted in centre of trim panel between dash panel and monitor housing (arrows).
📋 Procedure
- Open coin holder.
- Slide trim for coin holder to left out of fastener (arrow) and detach.
- Open glove box.
- Starting from above glove box, carefully separate trim panel (1) with switch module from dash panel using removal wedge3409.
- Detach trim panel with switch panel in direction of (arrow). [Note: Take particular care when unfastening clip at end of trim panel closest to driver.]
- Unplug electrical connector.
- Turn knurled wheel (3) of left air vent above glove box fully up.
- Above bottom slat (2), insert jeweller's screwdriver (1) in each of the two air vent clips.
- Alternating between left and right side, pull air vent out of opening, taking care to ensure that jeweller's screwdrivers remain in position. [Note: If necessary, use hook3438 to pull air vent out of opening.]
- Unplug connector at air vent.
- Release retaining tabs (1) of coin holder.
- Pull coin holder out of dash panel (arrow).
- Unplug connector on back of coin holder.
- When fitting trim panel (1) with switch panel make sure both catches are inserted in centre of trim panel between dash panel and monitor housing (arrows).
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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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