Removing and installing wheel arch cover (rear) - version 1 — AUDI
Removing and installing wheel arch cover (rear) - version 1 on Audi: 17 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 Q5 (8R, 2008–2017); platform code 83
Don't miss
- Rear door must be free of dust and grease in bonding area.
- Side panel must be free of dust and grease in bonding area.
- Bumper cover must be free of dust and grease in bonding area.
📋 Procedure
- Heat trim cover with a hot air blower and pull off.
- Rear door must be free of dust and grease in bonding area.
- Heat bonding surface to approx. 40° C using hot air blower.
- Peel protective film off adhesive tape (bottom).
- Position trim cover for rear door with distance (a) to trim cover at side panel and press on evenly over complete surface with roller3356.
- Heat trim cover with a hot-air blower and pull off.
- Side panel must be free of dust and grease in bonding area.
- Heat bonding surface to approx. 40° C using hot air blower.
- Peel protective film off adhesive tape (bottom).
- Position trim cover as far as possible towards top, align with side panel contour and press on lightly.
- Peel protective film off adhesive tape (top) and press trim cover on.
- Press trim cover on evenly along entire surface using roller3356.
- Heat trim cover with a hot air blower and pull off.
- Bumper cover must be free of dust and grease in bonding area.
- Heat bonding surface to approx. 40° C using hot air blower.
- Peel protective film off adhesive tape (bottom).
- Slide trim cover at bumper as far as stop towards trim cover at side panel (arrow) (zero-gap panel joint) and press on with roller3356.
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 air conditioner compressor, vehicles with 6-cyl. engine
- Removing and installing holder for rear air distribution flap control motor V427
- Removing and installing evaporator in heater and air conditioning unit
- Removing and installing front air conditioner operating and display unit E87
- Removing and installing front left chest vent temperature sensor G385 with a "“Low”" air conditioner (or with no air conditioner)
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.
Seen a figure that does not match your manual? Write to us — we correct it and note when. support@torqfix.com
The story behind TorqFix →Workshop data on this page last updated 20 Sep 2026.