Removing and installing heat shield for tunnel (rear): Audi A6/A7 C7
Step-by-step removing and installing heat shield for tunnel (rear) for the Audi A6/A7 C7: 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 A6/A7 C7 (4G, 2011–2018)
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear section of exhaust system 26Exhaust pipes/silencers; Exploded view - silencers.
- Remove heat shield for propshaft .
- Detach propshaft from rear final drive and tie up Rear final drive39Propshaft; Removing and installing propshaft.
- Remove bolts (arrows) for propshaft centre bearing.
- Carefully lower propshaft.
- Remove cross piece .
- Take out heat shield (1) towards rear.
- Install cross piece .
- Install propshaft Rear final drive39Propshaft; Removing and installing propshaft.
- Install rear section of exhaust system 26Exhaust pipes/silencers; Exploded view - silencers.
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
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Removing and installing engine bracket
- Emptying fuel tank, four-wheel drive, engine codes CFHC, CFHE, CFHF, CLCA, CLCB, CFJA
- Removing and installing fuel tank, front-wheel drive
- Removing and installing subframe with steering rack, steel
- Removing and installing lower suspension link, left side of vehicles with automatic or dual clutch gearbox
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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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