Removing and installing headlights with halogen bulbs: VW Golf Cabriolet
Step-by-step removing and installing headlights with halogen bulbs for the VW Golf Cabriolet: 14 steps.
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)
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📋 Procedure
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- Release plug (1) and pull off.
- Undo bolt (2) at rear of headlight.
- Undo and remove the 3 securing bolts (arrows).
- Pull headlight out of body opening in a straight line towards the front.
- Insert headlight by its 3 guides on the bottom side into the mountings on guide section (arrows) and push it into opening in body.
- First, screw in the 3 securing bolts (arrows).
- Then, screw in securing bolt (2) at rear of headlight.
- Tighten securing screws on headlight to torque specified in assembly overview .
- 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.]
- Checking headlight settings and adjusting headlight if necessary "“Maintenance manual”"Description 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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