Removing and installing headlight range control motor: Audi A6 C5
Step-by-step removing and installing headlight range control motor for the Audi A6 C5: 16 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)
- Also covered elsewhere: Electrical system general information94
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- The headlights must always be adjusted if the control motors are removed and installed or replaced 402.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ Danger of fatal injury from high voltageFor gas discharge lamp usage and safety instructions, refer to Electrical system general information94. — With the ignition switched off, disconnect the earth wire at the battery:
- Detach cover (arrow) at power-assisted steering reservoir.
- Detach cover (arrow) on right of engine compartment.
- Screw out bolts (arrows).
- Remove air ducts (1) and (2).
- Release spring clips (arrows) and detach cover from headlight housing.
- Unplug connector (2).
- Release the headlight range control motor (1): Turn clockwise at the right headlight and anti-clockwise at the left headlight.
- Pull the ball end of the positioning stem out of the socket: Slide to the left at the right headlight and to the right at the left headlight.
- Unplug connector (1).
- Screw out bolts (arrows).
- Pull ball end (2) of positioning stem sideways out of socket.
- Take out headlight range control motor (3).
- Start by inserting ball end of positioning stem in reflector socket. To do so, pull reflector to rear.
- Secure housing cover with spring clips.
- Connect battery. Action to be taken: [Note: The headlights must always be adjusted if the control motors are removed and installed or replaced 402.]
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