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Removing and installing gear knob, CC — VW

Removing and installing gear knob, CC 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.

12 steps

🧭 Before you start

Fits: VW CC (358, 2012–2017)

📋 Procedure

  1. Open ash tray.
  2. Press hook for front end 3370 as far as it will go under the plastic frame for the gaiter (arrow 1).
  3. Pull gaiter with plastic frame out of centre console frame (A)(arrow 1).
  4. Hold frame in position.
  5. Pull gaiter upwards, inside out over gear knob.
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  1. Open clamp (arrow) and pull off gear knob together with gaiter.
  2. If noise insulation is present, pull it off.
  3. If fitted, first insert noise insulation.
  4. Then push frame into centre console.
  5. Then turn gaiter inside out.
  6. Install gear knob and gaiter and squeeze new clamp (arrow) together.
  7. Insert back of gaiter with plastic frame first.

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Workshop data on this page last updated 20 Sep 2026.