Removing and installing right D-pillar trim — AUDI
Removing and installing right D-pillar trim on Audi: 9 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
The right-hand D-pillar trim on the vehicles with the platform codes listed below (S1 and 2H) is held by bolts rather than clips, and one goes into a wooden rail with a spacer under it. Removal is short: the rear right door seal is detached, the bolts and their spacers come out, and the trim is lifted away with its cut-out guided over the striker. Fitting is where the order matters. The trim is guided back over the striker, aligned, and the upper bolt goes into the side trim panel first; then the spacer is positioned and its bolt run into the wooden rail, followed by the middle and lower bolts to the side trim panel and the bolt at the bottom of the trim. The seal goes back on last.
🧭 Before you start
Detach the rear right seal, remove the bolts together with their spacers and lift the D-pillar trim off, guiding the cut-out over the striker. For installation the trim goes back over the striker, is aligned and bolted in sequence: upper bolt to the side trim panel, the spacer and its bolt into the wooden rail, then the middle and lower bolts to the side trim panel and the bolt on the lower part of the trim. Refit the seal to finish.
Fits: platform codes S1, 2H
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- Keep the spacers with their bolts; the bolt into the wooden rail must have its spacer under it.
- Guide the cut-out over the striker when removing and fitting, or the trim will be scratched.
- Align the trim and fit the upper bolt to the side trim panel before any other bolt.
- The door seal comes off first and goes on last.
Written for this job from the workshop steps below · TorqFix editorial.
📋 Procedure
- Detach rear right seal .
- Remove bolts (2) and (3) with spacers (4).
- Guide D-pillar trim (1) with cut-out over striker.
- Guide D-pillar trim (1) with cut-out over striker (2).
- Align D-pillar trim (1) and screw upper bolt to side trim panel.
- Position spacer (4) and screw bolt (3) into wooden rail.
- Screw middle and lower bolts (2) to side trim panel.
- Screw bolt (2) to lower part of D-pillar trim.
- Install rear right seal .
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