Removing undamaged double cab side window — AUDI
Removing undamaged double cab side window on Audi: 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: platform codes SF, SG
📋 Procedure
- Take trimming needle (1) from windscreen removal kitV.A.G 1755, and use handle (1) to force it through adhesive bead.
- Unscrew handle (1) and thread end of cutting cord through eye of needle.
- Pull in trimming needle with end of cutting cord.
- Use pliers and gloves.
- Secure inside end of cutting cord against falling out using Pull toggleV.A.G 1351/1(1).
- Place cutting cord around side window.
- Guide other end of cord into vehicle as well.
- Secure other end of cutting cord to reel deviceV.A.G 1654 A.
- Cut side window free by moving reel deviceV.A.G 1654 A to required position.
- Use wedgeV.A.G 1474/5 to press cutting cord against side window while cutting in order to have clearance at window flange.
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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.
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