Removing and installing starter - Audi TT with 3.2 ltr. MPI engine and dual clutch gearbox — AUDI
Removing and installing starter - Audi TT with 3.2 ltr. MPI engine and dual clutch gearbox on Audi: 17 steps.
Workshop procedure for AUDI — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: Audi TT Mk2 (8J, 2006–2014)
📋 Procedure
- With ignition switched off, disconnect earth cable at battery .
- Detach resonance pipe (2) from air hose.
- Detach air hose (1) from throttle valve module J338.
- Unplug electrical connector (3) for air mass meter G70.
- Unbolt air cleaner (top section) (arrow) and take out air filter element.
- Remove bolts (arrows) and detach air duct.
- Unbolt air cleaner (bottom section) (arrows).
- Cut open cable tie (arrow) for protective sleeve (1).
- Unplug electrical connector (2).
- Fold back protective sleeve and detach B+ wire from starter solenoid switch.
- Unscrew earth cable (3).
- ⚠ Risk of irreparable damage to control unit (mechatronic) due to static discharge.Do not touch the contacts in the gearbox connector with your hands. — Touch part of the vehicle body with your bare hand to discharge static electricity.
- Turn retainer catch anti-clockwise and unplug electrical connector (4) at gearbox.
- Remove lower starter bolt (accessible from above).
- Remove upper starter bolt and detach starter.
- Install air cleaner housing 24Air cleaner; Exploded view - air cleaner housing.
- Connect battery. Steps required .
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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.
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