Removing and installing rear Climatronic operating unit E265 — AUDI
Removing and installing rear Climatronic operating unit E265 on Audi: 10 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 A6/A7 C7 (4G, 2011–2018); platform code 4X
📋 Procedure
- If the rear Climatronic operating unit E265 is renewed, select "“Control unit replacement”" in "“Guided Fault Finding”" mode.
- Remove centre console trim (rear) General body repairs, interior68Centre console; Exploded view - centre console.
- Release the retainer tabs (arrows) on the left and right.
- Press the operating unit (2) out of the rear cover (1).
- When renewing a rear Climatronic operating unit E265, take care to select the correct version Electronic parts catalogue.
- Perform/check coding.
- Perform basic setting.
- Read out event memory (and eliminate the cause of any entries displayed).
- Check adaption.
- Perform final control diagnosis if applicable.
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- 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
- Removing and installing central tube retainer (Roadster) · 1 torque figures
- Removing height adjustment unit – Audi TT Mk1
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- Adjusting selector finger and selector sleeve – Audi A2
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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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