Removing and installing headlights with gas discharge bulbs, cornering lights and dynamic high beam control — VW
Removing and installing headlights with gas discharge bulbs, cornering lights and dynamic high beam control on VW: 11 steps.
Workshop procedure for VW — the exact step sequence and torque figures, straight from real workshop data.
🧭 Before you start
Fits: VW Touran I (1T, 2003–2015)
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- If a headlight is removed, it should always be adjusted following installation.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers, and remove ignition key.
- Remove front bumper cover General body repairs, exterior63Front bumper
- Release connector (1) and disconnect.
- Undo bolt (2) at rear of headlight.
- Remove the three bolts (arrows).
- Remove headlight forwards out of body aperture.
- First, tighten securing bolts (arrows) to specified torque.
- Tighten securing bolt (2) at rear of headlight to specified torque.
- Check installation position so that shut lines/gaps around headlight are even.
- Check functions of headlight. [Note: If a headlight is removed, it should always be adjusted following installation.]
- Check headlight setting and adjust headlight if necessary 18.1Descriptions 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.
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Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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