5-speed automatic gearbox 01V — Electrical and electronic components and their locations — VW
5-speed automatic gearbox 01V — Electrical and electronic components and their locations on VW: 16 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Passat B5 (3B)
- Special tools named: VAS 5051
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- Switch off ignition and then wait 30 seconds before removing multi-pin connector.
📋 Procedure
- Remove the trim from the right A pillar at the bottom and the right door sill strip. General body repairs, interior70Pillar and side trims; Removing and installing A pillar trim at bottom.
- Loosen and raise carpet.
- Unclip control unit from box (arrows).
- Switch off ignition and then wait 30 seconds before removing multi-pin connector.
- Release multi-pin connector and then pull connector off control unit.
- Place multi-pin connector on gearbox control unit connector housing (1), swing in (2) and lock (3).
- Connect VAS 5051 and continue to advance until "“Function/component selection”" is displayed.
- Then press "“Drive (Repair group 01; 10...26; 28...39)”".
- Then "“5-speed automatic gearbox 01V”".
- Press "“01 - Self-diagnosis”".
- Press "“Electrical components”".
- Press "“J217 - Automatic gearbox control unit”".
- Press "“Code control unit”".
- Perform the basic setting in "“Vehicle self-diagnosis”" with the VAS 5051.
- Remove cover above diagnostic connection next to handbrake lever.
- When removing and installing kickdown switch, remove and install the accelerator cable, then adjust afterwards.
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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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