Removing and installing GPS aerial — AUDI
Removing and installing GPS aerial on Audi: 17 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 Caddy III (2K, 2004–2015); platform code 2C0
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- The mirror glass can remain in place.
- Make sure that aerial wiring is routed correctly in mirror housing.
- The bore for attaching the mirror triangular cover (2) must not be covered by any wires.
- Fit mirror triangular cover (1). Aerial wires (2) must then be routed as shown in illustration.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Remove front passenger side door trimGeneral body repairs, interior70.
- Release and disconnect connectors of aerial wires (arrows).
- Unscrew securing nut of earth connection (arrow) and open cable tie (A).
- Unscrew mirror housing securing bolts.
- Remove exterior mirror from door.
- Guide out wires of exterior mirror through body aperture in door.
- Dismantle mirror housing General body repairs, exterior66. [Note: The mirror glass can remain in place.]
- Detach clip (arrow) and remove retaining tab together with wire.
- Press securing clip (arrow).
- Pull GPS aerial in (direction of arrow) out of mirror housing frame.
- Make sure that aerial wiring is routed correctly in mirror housing.
- Configure connectors of aerial wires (1) side by side as shown in illustration.
- The bore for attaching the mirror triangular cover (2) must not be covered by any wires.
- Secure wires for mirror electrics and aerial wires in place with half an adhesive pad (1) (7D0971798A) as shown in illustration.
- Seal bore (1) for retaining clip for wires of mirror electrics with clip or adhesive pad.
- Fit mirror triangular cover (1). Aerial wires (2) must then be routed as shown in illustration.
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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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