Removing and installing main switch for Start/Stop system — AUDI
Removing and installing main switch for Start/Stop system on Audi: 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: platform codes 2EA, 2ED, 2EH, 2EX, 2EB, 2EE, 2EK, 2FC, 2FF, 2FL, 2FZ, 2FG, 2FM
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Unclip trim (arrow) of a non occupied switch position using a suitable screwdriver.
- Carefully pull switch out of mounting frame in (direction of arrow) using front-end hook3370.
- Release and disconnect connector from switch.
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Remove dash panel insert trim General body repairs, interior70Removing and installing dash panel insert trim.
- Turn over removed trim.
- Press retaining clips (arrows) and push out switch.
- Connect connector to switch and engage it.
- Push switch into mounting frame and engage it.
- Install in reverse order of removal.
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Removing and installing alternator - vehicles with 1.8 ltr. / 2.0 ltr. TFSI engine
- Removing and installing starter - vehicles with 1.8 ltr./2.0 ltr. TFSI engine and manual gearbox
- Removing and installing starter - vehicles with 1.6 ltr. TDI engine
- Removing and installing selector lever handle – Audi A6/A7 C7
- Topping up gear oil
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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