Removing and installing coupling rod for anti-roll bar to lower suspension link — VW
Removing and installing coupling rod for anti-roll bar to lower suspension link 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: VW Phaeton (3D)
📋 Procedure
- Remove wheel.
- Remove bolt (1).
- Separate coupling rod/lower suspension link threaded connection (2).
- Press down wheel bearing housing slightly to pull bolt out of coupling rod.
- Remove coupling rod (3).
- Mount coupling rod (3) on lower suspension link.
- Insert new bolt (2) and fit bracket for brake line (4) at same time.
- Tighten new nut hand-tight.
- Secure coupling rod to anti-roll bar with new bolt (1).
- Tighten bolt (1) for coupling rod/anti-roll bar to specified torque.
- Tighten coupling rod/lower suspension link nut to specified torque.
- Install wheel and tighten bolts or nuts .
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (/ SKODA / AUDI) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
How to change anti roll bar link VW / SKODA / AUDI TUTORIAL
Other VW procedures
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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