Removing and installing upper transverse link (front): Audi Q7
Step-by-step removing and installing upper transverse link (front) for the Audi Q7: 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 Q7 (4M, 2015–)
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- Risk of accident!Do not raise or lower vehicle when engine and gearbox jack is under vehicle.Do not leave engine and gearbox jack under vehicle for longer than necessary. — Detach bolted connections (2, 3, 5).
- Bonded rubber bushes can only be turned to a limited extent. The suspension mountings must therefore only be tightened when the suspension is in the unladen position or normal level.
📋 Procedure
- Vehicles with coil springs: ascertain unladen position .
- Vehicles with air suspension: ascertain normal level .
- Remove rear wheel .
- Turn wheel hub until one of the wheel bolt holes is at the top.
- ⚠ Risk of irreparable damage to wheel bearing when screwing in wheel bolt.The wheel bolt must be fitted with a washer to prevent it from pressing against the wheel bearing when it is installed. — Attach support T10149 to wheel hub using wheel bolt (2) (with a washer (1) fitted in between).
- Use engine and gearbox jackVAS 6931 attached to support T10149 to raise wheel bearing housing slightly so that bolts can be removed more easily.
- ⚠ Risk of accident!Do not raise or lower vehicle when engine and gearbox jack is under vehicle.Do not leave engine and gearbox jack under vehicle for longer than necessary. — Detach bolted connections (2, 3, 5).
- Remove bolt (1) and detach upper transverse link (4).
- Screw in bolts initially until they make contact, but do not tighten to final torque yet. [Note: Bonded rubber bushes can only be turned to a limited extent. The suspension mountings must therefore only be tightened when the suspension is in the unladen position or normal level.]
- Lift suspension to unladen position or normal level .
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (Q7 4L) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
How to change Front Suspension Arm on AUDI Q7 4L TUTORIAL
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Who makes these pages, and how
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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