Removing and installing cover and padding for rear seat bench (5-seater) — AUDI
Removing and installing cover and padding for rear seat bench (5-seater) on Audi: 12 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 A2 (8Z)
- Renewed: staples
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear seat (see the separate procedure).
- Release rear seat backrest (see the separate procedure).
- Use flat screwdriver to prise out piping (1).
- Use flat screwdriver to prise out piping (2) all round.
- Disengage cover from retainers (3) (2x).
- Detach cover and padding (4).
- Install cover and padding (4) in reverse order of removal.
- Unfasten staples -2- from padding -3-.
- Pinch off staples (4) and detach cover (1).
- Use upholstery stapler V.A.G 1634/ to fit new staples.
- To facilitate installation, push back longitudinal rods as far as first transverse rod.
- When fitting, staple transverse rods first and then longitudinal rods.
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