Installing handle: VW Touareg I 4.9 TDI (CBWA)
Step-by-step installing handle for the VW Touareg I 4.9 TDI (CBWA): 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 Touareg I (7L, 2002–2010)
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- To ensure insert locking lugs assume correct position in recesses in handle:
- III - Now press handle onto selector lever to stop. It must be felt to engage.
🔧 Engine codes this applies to
📋 Procedure
- Refit assembly aid (A) (included with new handle).
- Push clip in again.
- Push insert onto stop in handle. [Note: To ensure insert locking lugs assume correct position in recesses in handle:]
- Slide insert approx. 1 mm back and forth in handle by hand.
- Insert clip (2).
- I - Push insert into handle to stop, and then slide upwards (arrow).
- II - Fit sleeve onto handle.
- Move selector lever to position "„N“".
- I - Guide sleeve carefully through sliding cover and cross-slide lying underneath.
- When inserting, take care to guide the sleeve very carefully through cover strip. Pressing in the sleeve without taking care will break the cover strip.
- II - Push on handle (handle pointing front to rear) to stop, then turn.
- III - Now press handle onto selector lever to stop. It must be felt to engage.
- Remove assembly aid (A), depress button and pull sleeve upwards.
- Remove backing from adhesive surface and apply sticker (arrow).
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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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