Installing assembly frame: VW Polo 6R
Step-by-step installing assembly frame for the VW Polo 6R: 12 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 Polo 6R (2009–2014)
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- Do not prime bonding surface and do not treat with a cleaning solution. Keep bonding surface free of dirt and grease. — Clean around bonding surface (2) using cleaning solution.
- Install glass panel (1) in mounting frame before installing mounting frame.
- Frame must be installed within 10 minutes after adhesive has been applied, otherwise the adhesive properties of the adhesive sealing compound will be impaired. — Insert frame together with glass panel into roof aperture.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ Do not prime bonding surface and do not treat with a cleaning solution. Keep bonding surface free of dirt and grease. — Clean around bonding surface (2) using cleaning solution.
- Now apply glass and paint primer evenly in one stroke using applicator.
- Drying time for glass/paint primer is 10 minutes.
- Fit glass panel (1) into frame.
- Check number of (3) vertical stops.
- Apply 2-component glass adhesive. Dimensions for adhesive bead (2): width 12 mm (dimension a), height 10 mm (dimension b). [Note: Install glass panel (1) in mounting frame before installing mounting frame.]
- ⚠ Frame must be installed within 10 minutes after adhesive has been applied, otherwise the adhesive properties of the adhesive sealing compound will be impaired. — Insert frame together with glass panel into roof aperture.
- The centring lug (3) aligns frame within aperture.
- Press frame downwards as far as the stops, check height setting in relation to roof .
- As the centring lug no longer exists, the frame is aligned in relation to the roof aperture (2).
- Press frame downwards as far as the stops, check height setting in relation to roof .
- Observe minimum curing period .
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