Removing and installing gas discharge headlights with dynamic main beam regulation — VW
Removing and installing gas discharge headlights with dynamic main beam regulation on VW: 11 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 Tiguan I (5N, 2007–2016)
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical loads, and pull out ignition key.
- Remove front bumper cover General body repairs, exterior63.
- Release connector (arrow) and disconnect.
- Remove the 2 securing bolts (arrows).
- Unscrew securing bolt (arrow) at front of headlight.
- Unscrew securing bolt (arrow) at rear of headlight.
- Pull headlight forwards out of body aperture.
- Tighten all threaded connections to torque specified in assembly overview .
- Check installation position so that shut lines/gaps around headlight are even.
- Check functions of headlight.
- Check headlight setting and adjust headlight if necessary Descriptions of work
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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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