Removing and installing engine mountings, CC — VW
Removing and installing engine mountings, CC on VW: 10 steps, engines CUVA, CUVC, CUVE, CUWA. 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 Tiguan I (5N, 2007–2016), VW CC (358, 2012–2017), VW Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra (7N, 2010–)
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- Tighten spindle slightly to take up weight of engine/gearbox assembly; do not lift.
📋 Procedure
- Remove engine cover panel .
- Unbolt fuel filter, and place it on engine with fuel lines connected 20Fuel filter; Assembly overview - fuel filter.
- Unscrew bolt (4) and turn filler neck for washer fluid reservoir (2) towards front.
- Open clip (3) and pull connector (5) off coolant expansion tank (1).
- Unscrew bolts (arrows), and place coolant expansion tank (1) on engine with coolant hoses connected.
- Support engine and gearbox in installation position .
- Tighten spindle slightly to take up weight of engine/gearbox assembly; do not lift.
- Unscrew bolts (5), and remove bracket (4).
- Unscrew bolts (1) and (3), and remove engine mounting (2) upwards.
- Checking adjustment of assembly mountings .
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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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