Removing and installing trim for slotted guide: Audi A6 C6
Step-by-step removing and installing trim for slotted guide for the Audi A6 C6: 13 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 A6 C6 (4F, 2004–2011)
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- Retaining tab in detent segment (arrow) must engage in groove on sunroof frame (arrow).
- For this purpose, lug (arrow) of spring guide (2) must engage under slide (arrow) of detent segment (1).
- Take special care to ensure that trim is correctly seated in rear retainer on glass sunroof panel.
📋 Procedure
- (A) Push slide (2) towards rear into detent segment (3).
- (B) Allow guide spring (1) to engage in detent segment (3) in direction of (arrow).
- (C) Allow slide (2) to spring back and lock guide spring.
- Position detent segment (1) against spring guide as shown and press detent segment into guide on sunroof frame
- Retaining tab in detent segment (arrow) must engage in groove on sunroof frame (arrow).
- For this purpose, lug (arrow) of spring guide (2) must engage under slide (arrow) of detent segment (1).
- Open sunroof to tilt position.
- Push sunroof headliner all the way towards rear.
- Pull detent segment (1) out of rail towards side.
- Starting at the bottom, pull off lower trim from frame and from glass sunroof panel (arrows).
- Press trim (2) into retainers on glass sunroof panel (1).
- Press trim (bottom) onto retaining strip (arrow) on frame for sunroof operation.
- Sliding headliner (3) [Note: Take special care to ensure that trim is correctly seated in rear retainer on glass sunroof panel.]
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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.
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