Removing and installing outer padding — VW
Removing and installing outer padding on VW: 12 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 AU1, BX5
- Renewed: if necessary
📋 Procedure
- Remove rear door trim General body repairs, interior70Rear door trims; Removing and installing rear door trim.
- Remove inner door cover .
- Using a screwdriver, release locking lugs of outer padding on outside (1) alternately on both sides, while simultaneously pulling outer padding on outside (1) upwards out of door (3).
- Detach adhesive strips of outer padding on inside (2) from door (3), and remove outer padding on inside (2) upwards from door. Observe electrical wiring while doing so.
- Check outer padding on inside (2) and outer padding on outside (1) for damage, and renew if necessary.
- Renew double-sided adhesive tape of outer padding on indies (2).
- Pull protective film off double-sided adhesive tape on outer padding on inside (2).
- Push outer padding on inside (2) as far as stop into door (3). When doing so, observe electrical wiring.
- Forcefully push outer padding on inside (2) against inner part of door.
- Push outer padding on outside (1) as far as stop into door, and engage it in outer padding on inside (2).
- Install inner door cover .
- Install rear door trim panel General body repairs, interior70Rear door trim panels; Removing and installing rear door trim panel.
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