Removing and installing spray jet retainer — AUDI
Removing and installing spray jet retainer on Audi: 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: platform codes 2EA, 2ED, 2EH, 2EX, 2EB, 2EE, 2EK, 2FC, 2FF, 2FL, 2FZ, 2FG, 2FM
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Pull out spray jet retainer in (direction of arrow) to stop by hand.
- Unclip cover cap (arrow) from spray jet retainer on both sides.
- Release catch of spray jet retainer (arrow) using a small screwdriver and pull out spray jet retainer.
- Engage spray jet retainer in one of the first detents of pop-up cylinder.
- Clip cover cap onto spray jet retainer and allow it to engage in pop-up cylinder.
- Check that cover cap is correctly seated on body.
- If necessary, adjust seating of cover cap by moving spray jet retainer to a higher or lower position on pop-up cylinder.
- Adjusting headlight washer system jets .
Other AUDI procedures
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- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
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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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