Removing and installing cover and padding, backrest: Audi TT Mk2
Step-by-step removing and installing cover and padding, backrest for the Audi TT Mk2: 13 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 TT Mk2 (8J, 2006–2014)
📋 Procedure
- Remove seat bench .
- Remove backrest .
- Remove trim for release mechanism .
- If fitted, remove Top Tether .
- Remove cover for centre mounting .
- Unfasten cable tie (3).
- Disengage Bowden cable (2) from retainer (4) and lever (5).
- Unfasten zip on both sides of cover.
- Use removal wedge3409 to prise out fastening strips (1) and (2).
- Disengage lug (5).
- Pull Bowden cable (4) out of opening (arrow) in cover (3).
- Detach padding with cover from adhesive tape on front of backrest pan.
- When installing a new backrest pan (1), detach protective film from adhesive strips (2) on front of backrest pan before fitting padding.
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