Removing and installing dash panel cover (driver side): Audi Q5
Step-by-step removing and installing dash panel cover (driver side) for the Audi Q5: 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 Q5 (8R, 2008–2017); platform code 83
📋 Procedure
- Switch off all electrical equipment.
- Remove ignition key.
- Remove side dash panel cover (driver side) .
- Unclip trim cover for instrument cluster from dash panel .
- Unscrew bolts (1, 2) (top).
- Unscrew bolts (4, 5) (bottom).
- Unclip top edge of dash panel cover (driver side) (3) from dash panel using removal wedge3409.
- Unplug electrical connectors for light switch.
- Equipment version with headlight range control regulator E102: Unplug electrical connector.
- Unclip 16-pin connector T16 (diagnostic connector).
- Equipment version with footwell light: Unplug electrical connector.
- Detach dash panel cover (driver side).
- Insert dash panel cover (bottom) (1) in clip (3) at foot rest and in clip (2) at air conditioning unit (arrows).
- Clip top edge of dash panel cover into dash panel.
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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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