Removing and installing holder for rear air distribution flap control motor V427 — AUDI
Removing and installing holder for rear air distribution flap control motor V427 on Audi: 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 A4 B9 (8W, 2015–)
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ A cam plate is held in position by way of the holder.Only remove the holder if expressly instructed to do so. — Remove the control motor V427.
- Screw out the bolts (B).
- With a "“High”" air conditioner, grasp hold of the cam plate (C).
- Remove the holder (A) and lay bare the wiring harness.
- Check the cam plate (C) and lever (D) for correct installation position and proper operation
- Fit the holder (A).
- Tighten the bolts (B).
- Install the control motor V427.
- Perform basic setting and final control diagnosis for the air conditioner "“Guided fault-finding”" mode. [Note: The control motors on this vehicle are equipped with electronics. A new control motor only learns its position at the heater and air conditioning unit in the course of basic setting and can then be actuated by the front air conditioner operating and display unit E87 (all control motors are identical at present) "“Guided fault-finding”" mode.During basic setting, the control motors are assigned and adapted in accordance with the series connection of the wiring. If the sequence is not as specified, the matching of the control motors and thus flap control will not be correct Overview of control motors of air conditioner.]
- Interrogate the event memory of E87 and erase any faults displayed "“Guided fault-finding”" mode.
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