Removing and installing lock carrier with assembling components — VW
Removing and installing lock carrier with assembling components on VW: 11 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
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- Do not hang condenser by the pipes.Condenser pipes must be folded.
📋 Procedure
- Removing radiator grille (see the separate procedure).
- Removing bonnet lock (see the separate procedure).
- Pull bowden cable out of lock and disconnect electric connectors.
- Disconnect electric connectors from headlight casing.
- Removing bumper and front bumper mounting (see the separate procedure).
- Pull headlight cleaning system pipe out of distributor in T-piece.
- Loosen radiator and condenser from bonnet lock carrier.
- Fit radiator and condenser to engine compartment Insulation, air conditioning87 [Note: Do not hang condenser by the pipes. Condenser pipes must be folded.]
- Center lock carrier on the beams and between wings.
- Gap measures Body maintenance00.
- Adjust headlights again.
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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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