Installing a new aerial wire — VW
Installing a new aerial wire on VW: 11 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: platform codes 9C1, 1C1, 1Y7
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- Do not kink or excessively bend aerial wires! The bending radius must not be below 50 mm.
📋 Procedure
- Pull defective aerial wire connections off units.
- Determine the routing of the defective aerial wire in vehicle and measure the total length of the aerial connecting wire to be replaced.
- To determine the length of connecting wire required, subtract 60 cm from the measured total length of aerial connecting wire (2).
- Procure the required adapter cables (1) and (3) and connecting wire (2) at length calculated as genuine part from the Electronic parts catalogue.
- Cut off connectors of defective aerial wire.
- Connect adapter cables (1) and (3) to equipment in vehicle.
- Provide the connectors with a piece of foam hose to prevent rattling noises.
- Route and secure the connecting cable parallel to the old aerial cable. [Note: Do not kink or excessively bend aerial wires! The bending radius must not be below 50 mm.]
- Connect connecting wire to adapter cables.
- To avoid rattling noises, push a suitable piece of foam tube onto each aerial connector.
- Perform functional test.
Other VW procedures
- Removing engine · 41 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshaft – VW Golf Cabriolet · 47 torque figures
- Adjusting valve timing – VW Passat B5 · 83 torque figures
- Removing and installing camshafts – VW Passat B6 · 39 torque figures
- Removing and installing coolant pump · 53 torque figures
- Dismantling and assembling drive shaft, triple roller joint AAR3300i (pushed into gearbox or bolted onto flange shaft)
- Removing and installing ABS control unit J104 and ABS hydraulic unit N55, RHD vehicles with ABS Mark 70 (ABS/TCS)
- Connecting electric drive motor V141 and engine, reinstallation of previously removed electric drive motor V141
- Removing and installing steering rack, electromechanical steering rack, RHD vehicles
- Removing and installing ABS control unit J104 and ABS hydraulic unit N55, RHD vehicles with ABS Mark 60
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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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