Removing and installing bearing housing: VW Sharan I / SEAT Alhambra
Step-by-step removing and installing bearing housing for the VW Sharan I / 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 I / SEAT Alhambra (7M)
- Renewed: dust plate
📋 Procedure
- First remove circlip on bearing.
- Install circlip.
- Always renew dust plate.
- Only press new dust plate far enough on until it is flush with bead (arrow).
- Clamp stub shaft in vice with protective jaw covers.
- Use new circlip (A) to press old circlip out of groove in stub shaft.
- Remove O-ring from stub shaft.
- Screw bolts (1) evenly against splitter (B).
- Fit stub shaft with new circlip and O-ring and drive in with plastic hammer.
- Half-fill space between sealing lip and dust lip with greaseG 052 128 A1.
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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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