Removing and installing bracket for front left vehicle level sender G78 and front right vehicle level sender G289 – vehicles with suspension struts — VW
Removing and installing bracket for front left vehicle level sender G78 and front right vehicle level sender G289 – vehicles with suspension struts on VW.
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)
- Opens: brake fluid
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ In vehicles with disengageable anti-roll bars, the anti-roll bars must be engaged before beginning work. Disengaged anti-roll bars otherwise pose a risk of injury due to unintentional engagement. — Remove front wheel housing liner General body repairs, exterior66Wheel housing liners; Assembly overview - front wheel housing liner.
- Pull connector (4) off vehicle level sender (3).
- Pull off pin in direction of (arrow) and unclip coupling rod from upper suspension link.
- Remove coil spring strut .
- Remove bolt (arrow) below brake fluid reservoir (1).
- Remove bolts (arrows) below hydraulic fluid reservoir (1).
- Release engine control unit connector (2) and pull it off.
- Remove control unit.
- Remove bracket for engine control unit (2).
- Remove mounting bracket.
- Unbolt bracket for vehicle level sender from mounting bracket.
- Screw bracket for vehicle level sender to mounting bracket .
- Install mounting bracket .
- Install suspension strut .
- Install front wheel housing liner General body repairs, exterior66Wheel housing liners; Assembly overview - front wheel housing liner.
- Carry out basic setting of adaptive suspension using "“Guided functions”" in .
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Who makes these pages, and how
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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