Installing rear final drive 02D or 0AV: VW Passat B6 (BWS, CBRA, CDLC, CDLF, …)

🧭 Before you start

The final drive is raised on a transmission jack, threaded over the anti-roll bar and set on the subframe with its rear plates in place. The rear mountings are secured from inside the luggage compartment with new bolts, the holes are plugged and the trim refitted, then the front bolts are tightened. Connector, breather lines, cross member, drive shafts, propshaft, heat shield and exhaust follow, with the exhaust aligned free of tension.

Fits: VW Passat B6 (3C, 2005–2010)

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• Check the plates sit on both rear bonded rubber mountings before lifting the unit into place.
• Lay each plate with its chamfer facing upwards between the rubber mounting and the subframe.
• The two bolts through the luggage compartment floor must be new; seal the access holes with plugs afterwards.
• Reconnect the all-wheel drive control unit J492 and push the breather lines back on.
• After exchanging the final drive, check oil level in the final drive and the Haldex coupling.

Written for this job from the workshop steps below · TorqFix editorial.

🔧 Engine codes this applies to

📐 5 workshop diagrams for BWS

Real factory drawings for this job — timing marks, bolt locations and routing. Locked in the free view.

📋 Procedure

1. Set rear final drive on engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A with universal gearbox supportV.A.G 1359/2.
2. Secure final drive against falling using strap from gearbox support.
3. Before installing final drive, check that the plates (C) are placed on the 2 rear bonded rubber mountings.
4. Raise final drive, guiding with rear mountings (bonded rubber mountings) (arrows) over anti-roll bar (5).
5. Set drive shafts »against« final drive, pushing final drive to »left and right«.

6. Finally set final drive with bearing supports on subframe (4).
7. Lay plate (C) with chamfer (arrow) facing upwards between bonded rubber mounting and subframe.
8. Screw in bolt (B) hand-tight.
9. Remove engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A with universal gearbox mountingV.A.G 1359/2 from rear final drive.
10. Insert two »new« bolts (arrow) through the holes in the luggage compartment floor and tighten. Specified torque Running gear, axles, steering42Assembly overview - subframe, final drive (four-wheel drive).
11. Seal holes with appropriate plugs, N 908 572 01 or N 908 572 02 Electronic Parts Catalogue.
12. Install trims in luggage compartment 70Trim, luggage compartment.
13. Tighten front bolts (arrow) securing final drive to subframe to specified torque Running gear, axles, steering42Assembly overview - subframe, final drive (four-wheel drive).
14. Join connector (A) to all-wheel drive control unit J492.
15. Push breather lines (arrows) onto breather pipes of final drive.
16. Install cross member Running gear, axles, steering42Assembly overview - subframe, final drive (four-wheel drive).
17. Attach left and right drive shafts Running gear, axles, steering42Assembly overview - drive shaft.
18. Install propshaft .
19. Install heat shield beneath propshaft.
20. Install exhaust system and align exhaust system free of tension 26Removing and installing parts of exhaust system. [Note: When exchanging rear final drive, check oil level in final drive and Haldex coupling and top up if necessary and .]

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