Removing and installing fuse carrier: Audi A6 C5
Step-by-step removing and installing fuse carrier for the Audi A6 C5: 12 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 A6 C5 (4B)
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- Precise assignment of fuse carrier can be seen from applicable current flow diagram .
📋 Procedure
- With ignition switched off, disconnect earth wire at battery:
- Remove the driver's storage compartment 68.
- Screw out bolts (B) of fuse carrier (A).
- Release clips (C) at top and bottom and detach fuse carrier from dash panel central tube.
- Disengage and lay bare wiring harness at dash panel central tube.
- Cut open cable tie (1).
- Release fuse carrier cover (arrows).
- Detach fuses at fuse carrier.
- Pull off retaining strip for connectors (arrows) and take connectors out of fuse carrier.
- Unclip socket (1). [Note: Precise assignment of fuse carrier can be seen from applicable current flow diagram .]
- Fit the driver's storage compartment 68.
- Connect battery. Action to be taken:
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