Removing and installing race bucket seat — AUDI
Removing and installing race bucket seat on Audi: 12 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 code 42
📋 Procedure
- Move race bucket seat as far back as possible.
- Remove bolts (1) and (5) from front of seat rail.
- Move race bucket seat as far forwards as possible.
- Remove bolts (3) from rear of seat rail.
- Detach bolts with spacers (2) and (4).
- Equipment version with three-point seat belt: Remove belt end fitting , thread belt out of race bucket seat and disengage it from retaining loop.
- Equipment version with three-point seat belt: Unplug electrical connector for belt switch and move electrical wiring clear.
- Equipment version with four-point seat belt: Thread belts out of race bucket seat.
- Tilt top of race bucket seat (1) towards centre of vehicle.
- Take hold of race bucket seat at seat rail (bottom) and carefully lift it over sill panel trim and out of vehicle.
- Position race bucket seat in vehicle so that locating lug on seat rail engages in hole (arrows).
- Fit bolt (rear) (1) for seat rail (3) with spacer (2) and tighten bolt.
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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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