Removing and installing sunroof headliner: Audi A3
Step-by-step removing and installing sunroof headliner for the Audi A3: 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: Audi A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
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- Make sure that the side contact surfaces for the sunroof headliner are free of grease.
📋 Procedure
- Remove glass sunroof panel .
- Pull sunroof headliner forwards until bolts for rear slides are accessible.
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Push front slides (1) forwards (arrow) until they can be removed.
- Push rear slides towards rear.
- Push sunroof headliner forwards out of frame for sunroof operation.
- Remove rear slides. [Note: Make sure that the side contact surfaces for the sunroof headliner are free of grease.]
- Insert rear slides into guide on frame.
- Insert sunroof headliner into frame and push sunroof headliner towards rear.
- Insert front slides into guide on frame.
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