Removing and installing rear side panel (top) — AUDI
Removing and installing rear side panel (top) on Audi: 11 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
- Remove side panel trim .
- Remove rear side panel (bottom) .
- Remove left or right engine compartment trim .
- Remove tail light Electrical system94.
- Unscrew bolts (arrows) from rear side panel (top) (1).
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Cut open cable tie (2).
- Detach rear side panel (top) (1).
- Install engine compartment trim .
- Install rear side panel (bottom) .
- Install side panel trim .
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