Removing and installing ignition key battery to 2010 — AUDI
Removing and installing ignition key battery to 2010 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: VW Caddy III (2K, 2004–2015); platform code 2C0
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- Before installing battery, always press any key once.Thus transmitter unit is reset and can recognize a new battery only now.
- Join lid and transmitter unit (make sure not to damage seal).
📋 Procedure
- Insert screwdriver in slot between transmitter unit (1) and key (2).
- Turn screwdriver in direction of (arrow) to separate transmitter unit from key.
- Press transmitter unit (1) apart using profile section of key (2).
- Unclip battery (1) from the retainers (2) with a screwdriver in direction of (arrow). [Note: Before installing battery, always press any key once.Thus transmitter unit is reset and can recognize a new battery only now.]
- Lay battery (1) with positive pole downwards in transmitter unit (2) (positive pole is marked on housing).
- Gently press (arrow) battery into transmitter unit until it engages.
- Join lid and transmitter unit (make sure not to damage seal).
- Then engage transmitter unit in key.
- In the vehicle diagnostics tester, select "“Guided Fault Finding”".
- Press GoTo button and select "“Function/component selection”".
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