Brake system — Connecting VAS 5051 and selecting functions — VW
Brake system — Connecting VAS 5051 and selecting functions on VW: 14 steps. What to remove, in what order, and what to check after.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra (7N, 2010–)
- Special tools named: VAS 5051/1, VAS 5051/3
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ During a road test, you must always secure testing and measuring equipment on the back seat.These devices may be operated only by a passenger while the vehicle is in motion. — Connect connector of diagnosis cable VAS 5051/1 or VAS 5051/3 to diagnostic connection.
- Switch on tester (arrow).
- Switch on ignition.
- Touch Guided Fault Finding on screen.
- Select one after another:
- Confirm data entered.
- Press Go to and select function "“Function/component selection”".
- Select "“Running gear”" on display.
- Select "“Brake systems”" on display.
- Select "“01 Self-diagnosis capable system …”" shown on display.
- Select "“Anti-lock brake system …”" shown on display.
- Select "“Electromechanical parking brake”" on display.
- Select "“Function”" shown on display.
- Select desired function on display.
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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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