Removing and installing guides (side/rear): Audi A3
Step-by-step removing and installing guides (side/rear) for the Audi A3: 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: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
📋 Procedure
- Remove bumper cover (rear) .
- If fitted, unplug electrical connector (2) at radio controlled clock receiver J489.
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Remove guide (rear) (1).
- Remove wheel housing liner (rear) .
- Unscrew bolts (arrows) and nut (1).
- Detach guide (side) (2).
- Apply guide (side) (A) to body.
- Tighten bolts and nut in sequence (1 ... 5).
- Insert guide (rear) (A) at guide (side) and tighten bolts in the sequence (1 ... 3).
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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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