Removing and installing wheel arch cover (door): Audi Q7
Step-by-step removing and installing wheel arch cover (door) for the Audi Q7: 11 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–)
- Special tools named: T10383/1, 3356
📋 Procedure
- Open rear door.
- Carefully heat wheel arch cover (2) with hot air blowerV.A.G 1416.
- Starting at top, lever wheel arch cover off door (3) using wedge T10383/1, taking care not to damage paintwork.
- Detach wheel arch cover (1) from door cover.
- Clean bonding surface with cleaning solutionD 009 401 04.
- Apply primerD 355 205 A2 to bonding surface using applicatorD 009 500 25 and allow to flash off.
- Fold over end of protective film or attach a removal aid (7) to protective film, as shown in illustration.
- Insert bottom edge (9) of wheel arch cover (4) behind door cover (1).
- Position centring pins (3, 5, 8) at door (2).
- Peel protective film off adhesive strip (6) using removal aid.
- Press wheel arch cover on using roller 3356.
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