Removing and installing trim panel for rear fog light and number plate light — AUDI
Removing and installing trim panel for rear fog light and number plate light on Audi: 15 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 C5 (4B)
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- Before tightening bolts and nuts, align trim panel for rear light with rear lid contours (even shut lines).
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and remove ignition key.
- Turn light switch to "“0”" position.
- Remove number plate.
- Remove the rear lid trim 70.
- Remove the lower rear lid trim 70.
- Turn left bulb carrier (1) anti-clockwise and right bulb carrier (2) clockwise.
- Take out bulb carriers.
- Screw out bolts and unscrew nuts (arrows).
- Unplug connector (3).
- Use flat screwdriver to press fasteners at operating levers (1) in (direction of arrow).
- Pull operating levers downwards out of handle mechanism (2).
- Take trim panel for rear fog light and number plate light out of rear lid.
- Before tightening bolts and nuts, align trim panel for rear light with rear lid contours (even shut lines).
- Fit the rear lid trim 70.
- Fit the lower rear lid trim 70.
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