Removing and installing high-level brake light, vehicles with rear lid — AUDI
Removing and installing high-level brake light, vehicles with rear lid on Audi: 14 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: VW Caddy IV (SA, 2015–2020)
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- Make sure the seal is not damaged when removing the high-level brake light. — Insert wedge T10039/1(1) at top between high-level brake light (2) and rear lid.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- ⚠ Danger of damage to component surfaces.When working with leverage tools, always mask off the components installed in visible areas using commercially available adhesive tape. — Attach a strip of adhesive tape (1) to the area of the rear lid above the high-level brake light.
- ⚠ Make sure the seal is not damaged when removing the high-level brake light. — Insert wedge T10039/1(1) at top between high-level brake light (2) and rear lid.
- Using plastic wedge T10039/1(1), press high-level brake light (2) downwards.
- Swing high-level brake light (2) out of rear lid.
- Pull out hose locking devices (arrows).
- Pull hose connection (1) off high-level brake light.
- Release connector (2) and disconnect.
- Remove high-level brake light.
- Fit hose connection and electrical connector and engage.
- Press high-level brake light into rear lid.
- Engage locking devices at top.
- Engage retaining springs at bottom.
- Check high-level brake light bulb M25 and rear window washer system for fault-free function.
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