Removing and installing fog light bulb L22/L23: Audi A8 D4
Step-by-step removing and installing fog light bulb L22/L23 for the Audi A8 D4: 11 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 D4 (4H, 2010–2017)
📋 Procedure
- Remove headlight housing .
- Vehicles up to model year 2013: Release housing cover (1) anti-clockwise (arrow) and detach from headlight housing.
- Vehicles from model year 2014 onwards: If fitted, remove bolts (2, 3).
- Release retaining tabs (arrows) and detach housing cover (1) from headlight housing.
- Turn bulb holder (1) anti-clockwise (arrow) and pull it out of housing.
- Pull bulb (2) out of bulb holder.
- Insert new bulb in bulb holder, taking care not to touch glass part of bulb with bare hands.
- Turn bulb holder (2) in clockwise direction (arrow).
- Vehicles up to model year 2013: Close housing cover (1) by turning clockwise.
- Vehicles from model year 2014 onwards: Close housing cover and, if fitted, tighten bolts.
- Install headlight housing .
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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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