Removing and installing easy-entry Bowden cable B — VW
Removing and installing easy-entry Bowden cable B on VW: 13 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 5C7, 5C1
📋 Procedure
- Remove front seat
- Remove trim on tunnel side .
- Turn backrest to front stop using adjuster knob.
- Clip »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (3) in at seat longitudinal adjustment (2).
- Detach »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (3) eyelet at seat rail pin (arrow).
- Unscrew backrest on tunnel side.
- Detach eyelet of »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (1) from pin (arrow) of backrest fitting.
- Press lugs (arrows) together and detach »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (1) from backrest fitting.
- Remove »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (1) through slit in backrest fitting.
- Attach eyelet of »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (1) to pin (arrow) of backrest fitting.
- Thread »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (1) through slit in backrest fitting and push it in so that lugs (arrows) latch into place.
- Attach eyelet of »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (3) to seat rail pin (arrow).
- Attach »easy-entry« Bowden cable B (3) to fore and aft adjustment mechanism of seat (2).
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