Removing and installing valve block — AUDI
Removing and installing valve block on Audi: 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: platform code 42
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ Risk of injury due to pressurised hydraulic system.The hydraulic pressure in the system must be released before working on the convertible roof system . — With ignition switched off, press and hold convertible roof actuation button E137 for approx. 5 seconds.
- Observe the rules for cleanliness .
- Remove back panel trim 70.
- Open abrasion guard (1) and (4).
- Unfasten quick-release couplings for hydraulic lines. To do so, release locking springs (arrows) and pull apart hydraulic lines (2) and (3).
- Unplug electrical connectors (1, 2, 4, 5, 6).
- Remove bolts (arrows).
- Detach valve block (3) towards front from rollover bar.
- If valve block is renewed:
- If hydraulic line is renewed:
- Install hydraulic line , .
- Fill and bleed hydraulic system .
- Install back panel trim 70.
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- Removing engine – Audi A8 D3 · 41 torque figures
- Removing camshaft timing chain from camshafts – Audi A6/A7 C7 · 38 torque figures
- Installing engine – Audi A8 D4 · 36 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft timing chain · 29 torque figures
- Removing and installing right (front passenger side) heat exchanger · 1 torque figures
- Removing and installing catalytic converter with front exhaust pipe
- Removing soft top cover – Audi TT Mk1
- Removing and installing wiper motor with wiper frame – Audi A2
- Removing and installing selector lever cable on vehicles with 3.2 ltr. FSI engine with vehicle ID No. up to 8E_8A 002699
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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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