Removing and installing gas strut: VW Passat CC / CC
Step-by-step removing and installing gas strut for the VW Passat CC / CC: 15 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 Passat CC (357, 2008–2012), VW CC (358, 2012–2017)
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- The new gas strut has an "“inner”" mounting lock which limits the outward movement of the piston rod during initial mounting.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ Proceed with care if gas strut is reused. Spring clip must not be levered completely out of ball socket, as it will otherwise be damaged. Gas strut will spring out of mounting, causing damage or injury to operator. — Open and support rear lid.
- Insert a small screwdriver beneath spring clips (8).
- Raise spring clips (8) until spring clips can be moved over ball sockets.
- Pull gas strut (1) off ball-head pin.
- Open and support rear lid.
- Lift spring (4) out of mounting (3). Now, remove spring from mounting (5).
- ⚠ The spring will immediately contract on prising out of mounting. — Releasing gas from gas strut .
- Press gas strut onto rear ball-head pin (2).
- To press gas strut onto front ball-head pin, insert a screwdriver into mounting slot (6) in hinge (1).
- Now press gas strut together using screwdriver blade until ball socket (5) can be pressed onto ball-head pin. [Note: The new gas strut has an "“inner”" mounting lock which limits the outward movement of the piston rod during initial mounting.]
- Press gas strut onto rear ball-head pin (3).
- Close rear lid until gas strut can be pressed onto front ball-head pin (5).
- Open rear lid manually; the "“inner”" mounting lock will audibly break.
- Twist spring (4) into mounting (5).
- Pull on spring and attach it to mounting (3).
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (Passat) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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