Removing and installing gear knob, Golf Cabriolet — VW
Removing and installing gear knob, Golf Cabriolet on VW: 10 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 Golf Cabriolet (517, 2011–2016)
📋 Procedure
- Pull or carefully lever gaiter upwards out of centre console frame (arrows).
- Pull gaiter upwards, inside out over gear knob.
- Open clamp (arrow) and pull off gear knob together with gaiter.
- Pull off, or carefully lever off, centre console frame (arrow 1).
- Pull off noise insulation (arrow 2).
- First insert noise insulation.
- Then push frame into centre console.
- Then turn gaiter inside out.
- Install gear knob and gaiter and squeeze new clamp (arrow) together.
- Then push gaiter into centre console frame.
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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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