Renewing oil seal (right-side) - Audi Q5 — AUDI
Renewing oil seal (right-side) - Audi Q5 on Audi: 19 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)
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- Always renew circlip for flange shaft (A).
📋 Procedure
- Remove front right wheel.
- Remove noise insulation (rear) (2)66.
- If fitted, remove noise insulation (1) from wheel housing (right-side).
- Remove bolts (arrows) and detach heat shield for drive shaft (right-side).
- Detach drive shaft (right-side) from gearbox and place to one side 40.
- Screw eye-head bolt3368 into threaded hole in flange shaft (right-side).
- Attach multi-purpose toolVW 771 with VW 771/13 to eye-head bolt and knock out flange shaft.
- Lever out flange shaft oil seal.
- Always renew circlip for flange shaft (A).
- Clamp flange shaft in vice, using jaw protectors. Use new circlip (A) to press old circlip out of groove in flange shaft.
- Lightly oil outer circumference of new oil seal.
- Drive in new flange shaft oil seal (right-side) as far as stop; keep seal straight when installing.
- Pack space between sealing lip and dust lip half-full with sealing greaseG 052 128 A1.
- Knock flange shaft in with driftVW 295.
- Bolt drive shaft to flange shaft 40.
- Fit drive shaft heat shield.
- If fitted, install noise insulation (1) in wheel housing (right-side).
- Fill up oil in gearbox and check oil level .
- Install noise insulation 66.
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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.
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