Removing and installing headlight mounting: Audi A3
Step-by-step removing and installing headlight mounting 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 (8V, 2012–2020); platform code 85
📋 Procedure
- Remove headlight .
- Remove bolt (1).
- Detach mounting (2) for headlight.
- Fit headlight mounting and hand-tighten bolt.
- Install headlight .
- Align headlight (1) according to gap widths of body contours.
- If necessary, turn nut (2) to adjust height.
- Secure bolts (3, 4) and at the same time align headlight so that it is flush with outer edge of wing panel.
- Check gap widths again; if necessary repeat adjustment of gap widths as described above.
- Adjust headlights .
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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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