Renewing outer seal: Audi Q5
Step-by-step renewing outer seal for the Audi Q5: 12 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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- Before installing seal remove any remaining adhesive.
- Bonding surface must be free of dust and grease.
- Seal must be compressed evenly along its entire length to take up any excess length.
📋 Procedure
- Sunroof frame removed .
- Pull seal (1) off all around roof opening to remove.
- Before installing seal remove any remaining adhesive.
- Bonding surface must be free of dust and grease.
- Clean bonding surfaces with cleaning solutionD 009 401 04.
- Wipe primed area of body once within 10 minutes with a clean paper towel.
- Align seal joint (1) with centre of roof opening (rear) (arrow).
- Remove protective film from adhesive strip (2) on side of joint.
- Attach seal to flange, at the same time pressing it on past radius of corner.
- Detach protective film from adhesive strip section by section and press on the seal.
- Seal must be compressed evenly along its entire length to take up any excess length.
- Press seal on evenly all around using a roller. Repeat this once more.
Other AUDI procedures
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- 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
- Testing slide travel potentiometer -G99 and quantity adjuster -N146
- Checking air mass meter -G74 for control unit no. 8A0 906 266 B (08.92 >)
- Checking injectors (injection quantity comparison measurement)
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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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