Installing gearbox - vehicles with 2.0 l - 103 kW TDI engine — VW
Installing gearbox - vehicles with 2.0 l - 103 kW TDI engine on VW: 14 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 Tiguan I (5N, 2007–2016)
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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 an engine/gearbox connecting bolt.
- Fit and tighten all torque converter bolts. Torque specification .
- Next bolt bracket (2) to gearbox. Torque specification .
- Raise engine and gearbox, reestablish »former seating« of bolts (1) for gearbox mounting to bracket (2) and tighten. Torque specification .
- Install bevel box .
- Assemble exhaust system, taking particular care to follow the procedure when tightening particle filter 26Exhaust system.
- Adjust selector lever cable .
- Install air filter housing.
- After installing, check ATF level .
- Perform basic setting by pressing Perform basic setting.
- Press →.
- Press →.
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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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