Removing and installing brake light switchF, RHD vehicles with petrol engine — VW
Removing and installing brake light switchF, RHD vehicles with petrol engine on VW: 12 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: platform code AJ5
📋 Procedure
- Pull off engine cover panel upwards from fastening points (arrows)10Engine cover; Removing and installing engine cover panel.
- Remove air hose from air filter. To do this, open clamp 24Air filter; Assembly overview - air filter housing.
- Remove air hose (1) by pressing the release buttons.
- Pull air hose (1) off and swivel to side.
- Unscrew bolt (arrow) for air pipe.
- Undo hose clip (2) and remove air pipe.
- Remove intake hose between air pipe and turbocharger.
- Seal turbocharger openings with engine bung setVAS 6122.
- Release connectors (1) and pull off.
- Remove bolt (2) from brake master cylinder.
- Pull brake light switch(3) off brake master cylinder at bottom, and release brake light switch from clip (4) at top.
- Insert brake light switch into clip.
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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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