Removing and installing main fuse carrier - Audi RS6: Audi A6 C5
Step-by-step removing and installing main fuse carrier - Audi RS6 for the Audi A6 C5: 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 C5 (4B)
📋 Procedure
- With ignition switched off, disconnect earth wire at battery .
- Detach rubber seal of plenum chamber cover in (direction of arrow).
- Detach plenum chamber cover (1) to front.
- Unscrew coolant expansion tank (arrows).
- Unplug connector to coolant shortage indicator switch F66 at bottom of expansion tank and lay aside coolant expansion tank with coolant hoses connected.
- Detach caps (1) and (2).
- Unscrew nuts (1), (2) and (4) of wires.
- Screw out bolts (arrows) for fuse carrier (3).
- Detach fuse carrier.
- Connect battery. Action to be taken .
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- Emptying fuel tank when fuel pump is intact
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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.
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