Renewing side light bulb: Audi A3
Step-by-step renewing side light bulb for the Audi A3: 11 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 A3 (8P, 2003–2012)
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- Do not flash the headlights.
📋 Procedure
- Turn light switch to position "“0”".
- Switch off ignition and all electrical equipment and remove ignition key.
- Do not flash the headlights.
- Remove air cleaner housing before working on headlight (left-side) Preparations before working on headlights.
- Release retaining clip (arrow) and detach housing cover for main beam/side lights from headlight housing.
- Pull bulb holder (arrow) for side light bulb out of housing.
- Pull bulb for side lights out of bulb holder.
- Insert new bulb in bulb holder, taking care not to touch glass bulb with bare hands.
- Press bulb holder into reflector until you feel it engage.
- Close housing cover.
- Secure housing cover with retaining clip.
Other AUDI procedures
- Removing and installing toothed belt – Audi · 56 torque figures
- 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
- Removing and installing camshaft oil seal, type B
- Renewing gasket between biturbo turbine housings – Audi CKUB
- Removing and installing wheel brake cylinder
- Removing and installing "“CD MP3”" and "“CD MP3 SD USB Bluetooth”" radio systems
- Removing and installing telephone operating electronics control unit, vehicles up to 06.2012
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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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