Removing and installing radio system "“RCD 200”" — AUDI
Removing and installing radio system "“RCD 200”" 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: VW Transporter T5 (7H), VW Transporter T6 (7E), VW Transporter T6 (7F)
- Special tools named: locking bar
📋 Procedure
- Remove any CDs left in the unit Operating manual.
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Insert the radio release tools T10057 into the slots in the radio (arrows) until they engage.
- Using release tool, pull radio in (direction of arrow) out of installation slot until you can access connectors on rear of radio.
- Press together connector locking mechanism in direction of (arrows).
- Swing locking bar up in (direction of arrow) and pull off connector.
- Release and disconnect connector (arrow) on aerial connection.
- Remove radio completely.
- Press locking tabs (arrow) and pull release tools forwards out of radio.
- Connect connectors to radio and engage them.
- ⚠ Risk of damage to display and operating keys!When inserting the radio system into the installation slot by pressing against the display or operating keys, the unit could become damaged.When inserting the radio system never press against the display or operating keys. — Slide radio straight into the dash panel until it locks into place in the mounting frame.
- If necessary, deactivate anti-theft coding .
- Check coding of radio and re-code if necessary .
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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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