Removing and installing rear bumper - overview: Audi TT Mk1
Step-by-step removing and installing rear bumper - overview for the Audi TT Mk1: 14 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 TT Mk1 (8N)
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- First secure guide with nuts to ensure that bumper cover can engage properly when it is installed.
- The bumper cover (1) can remain installed when removing trim cover (bottom)(2).
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear wheels.
- Remove wheel housing liners (rear) .
- Open rear lid.
- Unclip trim covers (left and right ).
- Unscrew Torx bolts and .
- Loosen hexagon nuts in wheel housings.
- Also loosen bolts on side for securing guides and press guides on both sides down slightly.
- ⚠ If guide is not loosened, the cover cannot be taken out of the catches. This could cause the paintwork to become damaged. — Detach cover from guides, pulling it to the side.
- Detach cover from vehicle towards rear.
- To remove, unscrew nuts and securing bolts on side and detach guide to the side.
- First secure guide with nuts to ensure that bumper cover can engage properly when it is installed.
- Then secure guide with bolts on side. [Note: The bumper cover (1) can remain installed when removing trim cover (bottom)(2).]
- Prise out clips (3).
- Remove bolts (4) and take off trim cover (bottom) (2).
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