Renewing inner seal: Audi Q5
Step-by-step renewing inner seal for the Audi Q5: 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: Audi Q5 (8R, 2008–2017); platform code 83
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- Bonding surface must be free of dust and grease.
📋 Procedure
- Remove glass panel (front) .
- Remove glass panel (rear) .
- Pull inner seal (2) off mounting frame (1).
- Remove any residual adhesive with adhesive strip removerVAS 6349.
- Bonding surface must be free of dust and grease.
- Clean entire bonding surface with cleaning fluidD 009 401 04.
- Wipe bonding surfaces of mounting frame with primer cloth supplied with seal.
- Position inner seal (2) on bonding surfaces of mounting frame (1) so that joint is in centre of roof opening (rear).
- Peel off protective film of adhesive strip (3) of new inner seal section by section and press on the seal.
- Compress inner seal evenly along its entire length to take up any excess length.
- Press inner seal evenly and all around twice using roller3356.
- Install glass panel (rear) .
- Install glass panel (front) .
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