Removing and installing fuel tank flap — AUDI
Removing and installing fuel tank flap on Audi: 10 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: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T5 (7J), VW Transporter T6 (7E), VW Transporter T6 (7F)
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📋 Procedure
- Open tank flap.
- Undo and remove bolts (2) and remove tank flap (1).
- Undo bolt (5).
- Twist cap of fuel tank off.
- Lever fuel filler neck cup (6) out by inserting a small screwdriver in upper recess (arrow).
- Pull water drain hose off fuel filler neck cup Engine20Fuel tank with attachments [Note: Ensure water drain hose is not pulled out of opening in underride guard.]
- Press shaped cover (6) into opening.
- Place tank flap (1) in position and tighten first the upper and then the lower bolt (2) hand-tight.
- Adjust joints of tank flap (1), gaps 00.
- Tighten bolts (2).
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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.
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