Removing and installing luggage compartment side trim — VW
Removing and installing luggage compartment side trim 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: platform codes 121, BL1
- Renewed: if necessary
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- Before installing, check all fasteners for damage and renew if necessary.Following installation, ensure that the trim is positioned in rear lid seal beading.
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear shelf.
- Remove rear seat backrest.
- Remove side trim panel
- Remove lower C-pillar trim.
- Remove bolts (1).
- Release luggage compartment side trim (1) from rear lid seal beading.
- Release luggage compartment side trim (1) from mountings in area of locking lug (2) using removal wedge3409.
- Release luggage compartment side trim (1) out of mountings in area of retaining clips (4) using wedge T10383.
- Remove luggage compartment side trim (1). [Note: Before installing, check all fasteners for damage and renew if necessary.Following installation, ensure that the trim is positioned in rear lid seal beading.]
- Insert centring pin (3) into mounting.
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