Removing and installing control unit for headlight range control/cornering light — VW
Removing and installing control unit for headlight range control/cornering light on VW: 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: platform codes AU1, BX5
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers.
- Remove ignition key, if inserted.
- Remove dash panel end trim on driver side General body repairs, interior68Compartments/covers; Removing and installing dash panel end trim on driver side.
- If fitted, remove knee airbag on driver side General body repairs, interior69Knee airbags; Removing and installing knee airbag with igniter.
- Release spreader clip (3) and pull it out.
- Remove control unit (1) towards rear.
- Release connector (2) and disconnect.
- To do so, press locking detent (1), swing retainer in (direction of arrow) and pull off connector.
- Press spreader clip (2) into opening (3) in control unit (1).
- Engage spreader clip by turning it 90° (arrow).
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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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