Removing and installing poly V-belt, vehicles with air conditioner compressor — AUDI
Removing and installing poly V-belt, vehicles with air conditioner compressor on Audi: 9 steps, engines CHZB, CHZE, CPTA, CPWA.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform code FV
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
📋 Procedure
- Remove noise insulation General body repairs, exterior66Noise insulation; Removing and installing noise insulation.
- ⚠ If a used belt runs in the opposite direction when it is refitted, this can cause breakage.Before removing, mark direction of rotation of poly V-belt with chalk or felt-tip pen for re-installation. — To slacken poly V-belt turn tensioner in anti-clockwise direction (arrow) using ring spanner.
- Lock tensioner with locking pin T10060A.
- Take off poly V-belt.
- Fit poly V-belt on poly V-belt pulleys:
- Hold tensioner with ring spanner and remove locking pin T10060A.
- Release tensioner.
- Check that poly V-belt is properly seated.
- Start engine and check that belt runs properly.
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing intake air temperature sender G42 / intake manifold pressure sender G71
- Removing and installing engine mounting, Polo – VW CHZB/CHZC
- Removing and installing knock sensor 1G61 – Audi A6/A7 C7
- Removing and installing exhaust camshaft oil seal, pulley end
- Removing and installing camshaft adjuster for inlet camshaft
- 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
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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