Removing and installing wheel bearing unit, vehicles with twin wheels — AUDI
Removing and installing wheel bearing unit, vehicles with twin wheels 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 codes 2EA, 2ED, 2EH, 2EX, 2EB, 2EE, 2EK, 2FC, 2FF, 2FL, 2FZ, 2FG, 2FM
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- Before installing, grease new wheel bearing with universal greaseElectronic Parts Catalogue (ETKA).
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear wheel hub .
- Insert suitable punch in both holes (arrows) of wheel hub.
- Drive rotor (1) out of wheel hub (2).
- Prize sealing ring (1) out of wheel hub using a screwdriver out of wheel hub (2).
- Remove shielding ring (1) and inner wheel bearing (2) from wheel hub (3).
- Drive outer race of inner wheel bearing (1) and outer wheel bearing (3) with a copper drift out of wheel hub (2).
- Press in new outer race for inner wheel bearing.
- Press in new outer race for outer wheel bearing.
- Before installing, grease new wheel bearing with universal greaseElectronic Parts Catalogue.
- Fit new wheel bearing (2) and shielding ring (1).
- Press in new sealing ring.
- Press in new rotor.
- Install rear wheel hub .
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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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