Removing and installing side member trim: Audi A1
Step-by-step removing and installing side member trim for the Audi A1: 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 A1 (8X, 2010–2018)
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- Before installing, completely remove any remaining adhesive.
- Before removal, mark position of fastening strip on side member to ensure that it is re-installed in the original position.
📋 Procedure
- Remove clips (front and rear) and unscrew bolts.
- Press side member trim (bottom) at mounting bracket upwards; this releases the catches .
- Pull side member trim (bottom) outwards off fastening strip.
- Carefully heat bonded joint on top with a hot air blower and pull side member trim diagonally upwards off mounting bracket.
- Before installing, completely remove any remaining adhesive.
- Align side member trim with side member and press into fastening strip at bottom.
- Press side member trim (top) onto fastening strip with adhesive strip.
- Insert fasteners and screw in bolts. [Note: Before removal, mark position of fastening strip on side member to ensure that it is re-installed in the original position.]
- Remove all nuts.
- Carefully heat bonded joint with a hot air blower and pull fastening strip off side member to the side.
- Peel protective film off adhesive tape.
- Align fastening strip according to marks and press onto side member.
- Screw in nuts.
- Clips and bolts removed.
- Gradually press retaining hooks (1) upwards out of fastening strip (2) and pull out side member trim outwards.
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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.
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