Removing and installing tail light cluster - vehicles with high-voltage system — AUDI
Removing and installing tail light cluster - vehicles with high-voltage system 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: Audi A3 (8V, 2012–2020); platform code 85
📋 Procedure
- Turn light switch to position "“0”".
- Open cover in luggage compartment side trim.
- Left-side: Take out vehicle tool kit.
- Remove bolt (3).
- Slacken off bolt (4) three turns.
- Release catch (arrow A) and guide bracket out of guide (arrow B).
- Swivel bracket out towards luggage compartment. This will guide retaining pin (1) out of body.
- Remove stud (2).
- Swivel tail light cluster (1) outwards (arrow) and at the same time release retaining pins from clip nuts.
- Unplug electrical connector.
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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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