Removing and installing front exhaust pipe - vehicles with multitronic gearbox — AUDI
Removing and installing front exhaust pipe - vehicles with multitronic gearbox on Audi: 19 steps, engines AVB, AVF, AWX, BKE.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A4 Cabriolet B6/B7 (8H), Audi A4 B6/B7 (8E)
- Renewed: gaskets
Don't miss
- Disregard (item 1).
- Renew gaskets and self-locking nuts.Mounting components
📐 36 workshop diagrams for AVB
Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.
📋 Procedure
- Unclip cover caps.
- Unscrew nuts (arrows) and detach engine cover panel. Also pull out dipstick if necessary.
- Remove insulation beneath cover panel (if fitted).
- Unplug electrical connector (1).
- Move aside fuel hoses at air pipe.
- Remove bolt (2).
- Remove air pipe (arrows).
- Take electrical connector (arrow) for temperature sender after particulate filter G527 out of bracket.
- Unplug electrical connector.
- Detach cable ties (1) and (2) and move wiring clear.
- Vehicles with auxiliary heater: remove bolts (arrows) securing exhaust pipe for auxiliary/additional heater to noise insulation.
- Open quick-release fasteners (1 … 3) and take off front and rear noise insulation.
- Remove noise insulation (1) in wheel housing (right-side).
- Unbolt heat shield (1) for drive shaft (right-side).
- Remove bolts (1) and (2) on bracket for front exhaust pipe.
- Unscrew nuts (arrows). [Note: Disregard (item 1).] [Note: Do not bend the flexible joint (de-coupling element) in the exhaust system more than 10°, otherwise it could be damaged.]
- Loosen clamp (arrow) and push towards rear.
- Remove front exhaust pipe. [Note: Renew gaskets and self-locking nuts.Mounting components]
- Align exhaust system so it is free of stress .
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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