Removing and installing lining for spare wheel well: Audi A3
Step-by-step removing and installing lining for spare wheel well for the Audi A3: 11 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 A3 (8V, 2012–2020); platform code 85
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear seat backrests .
- Remove luggage compartment floor.
- Take out vehicle tool kit.
- Remove lock carrier trim .
- Remove support for luggage compartment floor .
- Equipment version with subwoofer: Remove subwoofer Communication91Sound system; Overview of fitting locations - sound system.
- Equipment version with spare wheel: Take out spare wheel.
- Equipment version with jack: Take out jack, unscrew nuts (1 and 2) and remove mounting (3) for jack.
- Remove spreader rivets (3).
- If fitted, remove nuts (2).
- Pull lining (1) for spare wheel well out from underneath luggage compartment side trim panels from the side and lift out.
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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.
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