Removing and installing gearbox mounting - vehicles with manual gearbox — AUDI
Removing and installing gearbox mounting - vehicles with manual gearbox on Audi: 12 steps, engines CAXA, CAYB, CAYC, CDUC.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi A1 (8X, 2010–2018)
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- Disregard (item 4).
- Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Remove air cleaner housing .
- Version for countries with cold climates: Unplug electrical connector (2).
- Press release tabs and disconnect crankcase breather hose (1).
- Disconnect vacuum hose (arrow).
- Remove bolt (3), swivel air pipe with connection to rear and detach from turbocharger. [Note: Disregard (item 4).]
- Remove vacuum hose (arrow 1) for brake servo with grommet (arrow 2).
- Unscrew nuts (1) and bolt (3), and push electronics box (2) to the side.
- Position support bracket10 - 222 A on bolted flanges of wing panels as shown in illustration.
- Attach hook of spindle10 - 222 A /11 to engine lifting eye (rear left).
- Remove bolts (arrows) securing gearbox mounting (1).
- Remove bolts (arrows A, B, C) and detach gearbox mounting. [Note: Renew the bolts tightened with specified tightening angle.]
- Install air cleaner housing .
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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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