Removing and installing movable section of sliding window, California — AUDI
Removing and installing movable section of sliding window, California 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 SF, SG
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- Make sure that button (2) for sliding window (1) does not engage in this position; it must remain in open position.
- Ensure that the centring pins (2) and (3) swing outwards.Hold button in open position to ensure locking peg remains down.
📋 Procedure
- Cover glass surfaces on cross section.
- Push driver's seat forwards as far as it will go.
- Remove roller blind of left side window.
- Push away roof side member trim.
- Move sliding window (1) to middle position.
- Make sure that button (2) for sliding window (1) does not engage in this position; it must remain in open position.
- Carefully push upper plastic frame upwards using removal wedge3409.
- Prise upper pin (2) of sliding window (1) out of guide.
- Carefully push upper plastic frame upwards using removal wedge3409.
- Prise upper pin (2) on left of sliding window (1) out of guide.
- Fold down upper part of sliding window (1) and pull out of guide. [Note: Ensure that the centring pins (2) and (3) swing outwards.Hold button in open position to ensure locking peg remains down.]
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