Installing exterior seal: VW Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra
Step-by-step installing exterior seal for the VW Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra: 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 Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra (7N, 2010–)
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- Entire bonding surface on roof cut-out must be free of dust and grease.
- The seal must not pull into the radii, otherwise the seal will stretch and compress.
📋 Procedure
- Entire bonding surface on roof cut-out must be free of dust and grease.
- Clean complete bonding area with cleaning solution.
- Prime bonding areas on roof cut-out using plastic primerD 366 PR1 A1.
- Observe flash-off time of 10 minutes.
- Centre new exterior seal (1) with joint (arrow) to centre of rear roof cut-out.
- Pull protective film from adhesive tape (3) of new exterior seal (1) and press seal onto roof (3).
- The seal must not pull into the radii, otherwise the seal will stretch and compress.
- Press exterior seal on firmly and evenly 2x around circumference using roller3356.
- Install rear glass panel .
- Install front glass panel .
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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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