Removing and installing camshaft adjuster for inlet camshaft — VW
Removing and installing camshaft adjuster for inlet camshaft on VW: 12 steps, engines CHZB, CHZC, CHZD.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Golf VII Variant (BA), VW Polo 6C (2014–2017), VW Golf Sportsvan (AM1, 2014–2020), VW Golf VII (5G, 2012–2020)
- Timing position: the crankshaft or camshaft is set and locked during this job
📋 Procedure
- Set engine to "“TDC for cylinder no. 1”".
- Detach toothed belt from camshafts .
- Use counter-hold tool T10554 and counter-hold tool T10172 to prevent camshaft from turning (push »anti-clockwise«).
- Unscrew bolt (2) for camshaft adjuster of inlet camshaft.
- Remove camshaft adjuster of inlet camshaft.
- Install camshaft adjuster.
- Renew bolts (1) and (2) for camshaft adjusters, and screw them in loosely.
- Centre marks (3) of inlet camshaft pulley (1) relative to web (2) on camshaft housing.
- Centre marks (3) of exhaust camshaft pulley (1) relative to web (2) on camshaft housing.
- Insert assembly tool T10476A between camshaft pulleys.
- Insert assembly tool T10476A to stop.
- Adjusting valve timing .
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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.
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