Removing and installing roof aerial R216, Sportback: Audi A5
Step-by-step removing and installing roof aerial R216, Sportback for the Audi A5: 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 A5 (8T, 2007–2016)
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- Ensure that seal is seated properly.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off all electrical equipment.
- Remove ignition key.
- Lower headliner at rear General body repairs, interior70Roof trim panels; Removing and installing moulded headliner.
- Release and unplug connectors (1) and (3) to aerial wires.
- Remove aerial wires up to roof aerial R216(arrows).
- Unscrew nut (2).
- Lift roof aerial R216 off roof.
- Guide in aerial wires through roof opening and carefully fit roof aerial R216 onto roof.
- Ensure that seal is seated properly.
- Install in reverse sequence of removal.
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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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