Removing and installing steering angle sender G85: Audi A3
Step-by-step removing and installing steering angle sender G85 for the Audi A3: 14 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 A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
- Special tools named: VAS 5051, VAS 5052
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- The return ring with slip ring must not be rotated following removal. — Remove driver's storage compartment 68.
- 03 - Brake electronics ABS/ESP Mark 60
📋 Procedure
- Remove airbag unit and steering wheel 48
- Turn wheels to straight ahead position.
- ⚠ The return ring with slip ring must not be rotated following removal. — Remove driver's storage compartment 68.
- Remove steering column switch module. 94
- Install airbag unit and steering wheel. 48
- Start calibration for steering angle sender G85.
- Carry out ESP road test and system test.
- See: Running gear
- Brake system (Repair group 01; 45)
- 01 - Self-diagnosis compatible systems
- 03 - Brake electronics ABS/ESP Mark 60
- J104 - Control unit for ABS/TCS/ESP, Functions
- G-85 - Calibrate steering angle sensor Vehicle diagnosis, testing and information system -VAS 5051 x- or -VAS 5052-.
- Connect vehicle diagnosis, testing and information systemVAS 5051 x or VAS 5052 and select function.
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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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