Converting headlights with adjusting lever for left-hand/right-hand traffic — VW
Converting headlights with adjusting lever for left-hand/right-hand traffic on VW: 10 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 Touareg I (7L, 2002–2010)
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- When installing cover cap, ensure cap is seated correctly. The ingress of water will lead to permanent damage to the headlight. — Lock headlight housing with cover cap again.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers and remove ignition key.
- Remove headlight (see the separate procedure).
- Pull off cover cap (1) from rear of headlight housing.
- ⚠ Within the glass bulb of a gas discharge bulb, pressure can range from between 7 bar (cold) and 100 bar (hot). Temperatures can reach up to 700 degrees Celsius on the glass bulb. Should the glass bulb explode, there is a risk of injury from burning. Always wear eye protection and gloves when removing and installing gas discharge bulbs! — Push control lever (1) to desired position (A) or (B).
- ⚠ When installing cover cap, ensure cap is seated correctly. The ingress of water will lead to permanent damage to the headlight. — Lock headlight housing with cover cap again.
- Install headlight (see the separate procedure).
- Deactivating cornering light (see the separate procedure).
- Check headlight functions.
- Check headlight setting and adjust headlight if necessary Descriptions of work
- Convert second headlight in the same way.
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