Removing and installing trim panel for B-pillar (front door) — AUDI
Removing and installing trim panel for B-pillar (front door) 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 A8 D4 (4H, 2010–2017)
📋 Procedure
- Remove front door window .
- Remove window frame trim General body repairs, interior70Door trim (front); Removing and installing window frame trim.
- Pull inner window slot trim strip (1) off door shell and pull window guide (2) out of rear window guide.
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Slide trim panel for B-pillar (item 3) downwards (arrow A); lug (2) at top will be disengaged from window guide (1).
- Press trim panel for B-pillar towards outside until surrounding section of trim panel for B-pillar is disengaged (arrows B).
- Pull trim panel for B-pillar upwards out of door opening.
- Install inner window slot trim strip.
- Install window frame trim General body repairs, interior70Door trim (front); Removing and installing window frame trim.
- Install front door window .
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