DS5 DW10CTED (RHC) With hybrid traction chain — CITROEN
DS5 DW10CTED (RHC) With hybrid traction chain on Citroen: 101 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for CITROEN — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: platform codes HYBRID, 4
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
- Special tools named: locking pin, locking tool
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- Always fit a new timing belt after removal
- The engine must be cold before timing belt adjustment
📋 Procedure
Preparation and removal
- Timing belt clamp:
- Unless otherwise advised by the manufacturer, the following procedures are recommended:
- Always fit a new timing belt after removal
- Remove the engine upper cover
- Remove the front right wheel
- Remove the front right splash guard
- Note: The engine must be cold before timing belt adjustment
- Note: Avoid bending, torsion or traction
- Remove the wiper arms and the wiper mechanism cover panel
- Remove the air duct
- Use an Allen key
- Remove the fuel priming pump and bracket
- Remove the electrical cables
- Remove the intercooler air duct
- Disconnect the engine speed sensor
- Remove the crankshaft TDC positioning tool
- Remove the timing belt upper cover
- Turn the crankshaft clockwise, 6 rotations
- Turn the crankshaft to TDC for cylinder 1
- Fit the camshaft locking pin
- Fit the camshaft locking pin
- Fit the flywheel locking tool
- Loosen the crankshaft pulley centre bolt
- Loosen the tensioner pulley, keeping it steady with an Allen key
- Loosen the tensioner pulley bolt
- Remove the timing belt
Installation and checks
- Fit the timing belt onto the camshaft gearwheel
- Remove the alignment tool
- Check the position
- Align the marks on the tensioner and backplate
- Tighten the tensioner pulley bolt
- Fit the crankshaft pulley together with the sensor ring
- Turn the tensioner pulley clockwise until the pointer is positioned as shown
- Check the position
- Tighten the tensioner pulley bolt
- Tighten the crankshaft pulley
- Stage 1:
- Stage 2:
- Remove the special tools
- Refit the intercooler air duct
- Refit the pulley cover
- Refit the timing belt upper cover
- Reconnect the wiring loom to the timing belt cover
- Refit the engine speed sensor
- Refit the fuel priming pump and bracket
- Reconnect the fuel feed and return lines
- Refit or renew the cables
- Refit the fuse box cover
- Refit the air duct
- Refit the noise insulation cover
- Refit the wiper arms and wiper cover panel
- Fit the ancillary drive belt
- Refit the engine lower covers
- Refit the inner wing splash guard
- Refit the front right wheel
- Lower the vehicle
- Reconnect the battery
- Refit the engine upper cover
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Who makes these pages, and how
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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