Removing and installing particulate filter (right-side) — AUDI
Removing and installing particulate filter (right-side) on Audi: 11 steps, engines BTR, CCFA, CCFC. 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 Q7 (4L, 2005–2015)
- Renewed: seals
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- Disregard (item 1).
- Renew seals, gaskets and self-locking nuts.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ Working on all parts of the exhaust system:Observe safety precautions when working on the exhaust system . — Activate jacking mode 43.
- Remove rear noise insulation panel (2)66.
- ⚠ Avoid damage to flexible joints. Do NOT bend the flexible joints in the catalytic converter more than 10°. — Disconnect exhaust system at clamp (2). [Note: Disregard (item 1).]
- Detach hose (1) going to pressure differential sender G505.
- Remove temperature sender before particulate filter G506(item 2)
- Remove nuts (3) and bolts (4) and (5) and detach particulate filter (right-side). [Note: Renew seals, gaskets and self-locking nuts.]
- Install temperature sender before particulate filter G506.
- Align the exhaust system so it is free of stress .
- Install rear noise insulation 66.
- Deactivate jacking mode 43.
- After renewing particulate filter, perform adaption in "“Guided Functions”" mode vehicle diagnostic tester.
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Who makes these pages, and how
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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