Replacing connecting pipe for spray jet: Audi A6 C5
Step-by-step replacing connecting pipe for spray jet for the Audi A6 C5: 14 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 A6 C5 (4B)
- Renewed: drive shaft
📋 Procedure
- Remove spray jet .
- Remove the wiper arm .
- Remove the lower rear lid trim 70.
- Detach water hose (1) from connecting pipe (3) of spray jet.
- Screw out bolts (arrows) and detach cover (2).
- Replace drive shaft.
- Working from inside, insert connecting pipe (2) in cover (1).
- Fit the new seal on the rear window wiper motor.
- Carefully insert connecting pipe in drive shaft and screw on cover.
- Press water hose onto spray jet connecting pipe.
- Fit the lower rear lid trim 70.
- Adjust the wiper arm .
- Insert spray jet with new O-ring in connecting pipe.
- Adjust spray jet .
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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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