Removing and installing front turn signal bulb M5/M7, halogen headlights - vehicles from model year 2012 onwards, USA vehicles from model year 2013 onwards — AUDI
Removing and installing front turn signal bulb M5/M7, halogen headlights - vehicles from model year 2012 onwards, USA vehicles from model year 2013.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A5 (8T, 2007–2016)
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- Do not flash the headlights.
📋 Procedure
- Turn light switch to position "“0”".
- Switch off ignition and all electrical equipment and remove ignition key.
- Do not flash the headlights.
- Right-side: Remove air cleaner housing 23Air cleaner; Removing and installing air cleaner housing or 24Air cleaner; Removing and installing air cleaner housing.
- Turn housing cover (1) anti-clockwise (arrow) and detach from headlight housing.
- Release bulb (1): on left by turning anti-clockwise (arrow); on right by turning clockwise.
- Pull bulb out of housing.
- Pull bulb (3) out of bulb holder (2).
- Insert new bulb in bulb holder, taking care not to touch glass part of bulb with bare hands.
- Close housing cover (turn clockwise).
- Right-side: Install air cleaner housing 23Air cleaner; Removing and installing air cleaner housing or 24Air cleaner; Removing and installing air cleaner housing.
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Checking clutch master cylinder and clutch slave cylinder
- Removing and installing front airbag crash sensor for driver side G283
- Exploded view - timing chain
- Removing and installing fuel gauge sender 3 G237 (tubular sender, left-side)
- Removing and installing front left vehicle level sender G78 and front right vehicle level sender G289
Who makes these pages, and how
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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