Removing and installing selector lever lock solenoid: Audi A6 C5
Step-by-step removing and installing selector lever lock solenoid for the Audi A6 C5: 15 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 C5 (4B)
📋 Procedure
- Remove selector mechanism .
- Detach buffer stop from cable lever.
- Shift selector lever into tiptronic position, then remove frame.
- Shift selector lever into position "“2”".
- Disengage lever for locking cable by lifting it out of its mounting and remove from the shift unit.
- Press out the pin for the pawl using a punch.
- Lift out the selector lever lock solenoid together with the pawl.
- Shift selector lever into position "“2”".
- Push the selector lever lock solenoid together with the pawl into the shift unit from above.
- Drive the pin for the pawl in carefully.
- Use a screwdriver to check that the locking pawl is properly engaged when the selector lever is in positions "“P”" and "“N”".
- Place the locking lever in the shift unit and engage it firmly until you feel it lock into place in both mountings.
- Check the locking function of the locking lever. With the selector lever in position "“P”", the lever should engage in the detent plate and lock the selector mechanism.
- Mount the frame on the shift unit (with the ribs pointing upwards) and insert the buffer stop in the cable lever.
- Install selector mechanism .
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