Removing and installing heat shield for tunnel (centre): Audi Q3
Step-by-step removing and installing heat shield for tunnel (centre) for the Audi Q3: 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 Q3 (8U, 2011–2018); platform code 84
📋 Procedure
- Remove underbody covers (left and right) .
- Remove heat shield for propshaft .
- Vehicles with petrol engine: Unplug electrical connector (arrow) for Lambda probe after catalytic converter G130 and Lambda probe 1 heater after catalytic converter Z29 on right side of underbody.
- Take electrical connector out of bracket and move wiring harness clear at heat shield.
- Remove cross piece .
- Remove bolts (arrows) at centre propshaft bearing (2).
- Detach propshaft from rear final drive Rear final drive39Propshaft; Removing and installing propshaft.
- Detach heat shield (1) towards rear left.
- Install propshaft Rear final drive39Propshaft; Removing and installing propshaft.
- Install heat shield for propshaft .
Other AUDI procedures
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- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
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- Checking fuel pressure regulator and residual pressure (engine code letters BHT)
- Renewing sealing flange (pulley end) with crankshaft oil seal
- Removing and installing high-pressure pump - vehicles up to 09.2005
- Removing and installing coolant pipes (at side) – Audi 2.0
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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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