Removing and installing outer belt guide (rear) - Saloon — AUDI
Removing and installing outer belt guide (rear) - Saloon on Audi: 13 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 A4 B8 (8K, 2007–2015)
- Renewed: entire belt guide
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- When removing and installing belt guide (1), never turn bolts (3). They have been set by the manufacturer.Renew entire belt guide if damaged. — Remove side padding .
- Outer belt guide (rear): Unplug electrical connector for rear parking aid warning buzzer H15.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ When removing and installing belt guide (1), never turn bolts (3). They have been set by the manufacturer.Renew entire belt guide if damaged. — Remove side padding .
- Equipment version with side airbag (rear): Remove side airbag (rear) .
- Equipment version with fixed rear seat backrest: Remove fixed rear seat backrest .
- Remove rear shelf .
- Remove foam element below belt guide.
- Press retaining hooks (4) on belt guide upwards and hold.
- Slide belt guide (1) to rear (arrow A) until bolt heads (3) can be disengaged from bracket at body.
- Slightly lift C-pillar trim (item 2) and take out belt guide sideways towards interior of vehicle (arrow B).
- Outer belt guide (rear): Unplug electrical connector for rear parking aid warning buzzer H15.
- Place belt in recess in belt guide (1) and position belt guide on bracket.
- Insert belt guide with bolt heads (3) in guide elements at bracket.
- Press belt guide downwards and at the same time pull it forwards, making bolt heads engage in guide elements.
- Pull belt guide forwards until retaining hook engages audibly.
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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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