Installing gearbox, CC with four-wheel drive — VW
Installing gearbox, CC with four-wheel drive on VW: 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 CC (358, 2012–2017)
- Renewed: seals
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- After installing, check ATF level .
📋 Procedure
- Check for proper seating of both dowel sleeves between engine and gearbox.
- Set gearbox in place, possible adjusting gearbox support.
- Now install one of the engine/gearbox connecting bolts.
- Fit and tighten all torque converter nuts. Specified torque .
- First bolt bracket (2) to gearbox. Specified torque .
- Raise engine and gearbox, reestablish »former seating« of bolts (1) for gearbox mounting to bracket (2) and tighten. Torque specification .
- Install bevel box .
- Adjust selector lever cable .
- Renew seals on ATF pressure lines.
- After installing, check ATF level .
- Check coolant level and top up if necessary 19.
- Perform basic setting by pressing Perform basic setting.
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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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