Removing and installing parking brake motor: VW Touareg II
Step-by-step removing and installing parking brake motor for the VW Touareg II: 14 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: VW Touareg II (7P, 2010–2018)
- Special tools named: VAS 5051
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- Mark brake shoes when removing if they are to be reused. Fit in same position when installing, or braking will be uneven.
- If parking brake motor is to be reused, secure parking brake motor in brake shoe mounting with a cable tie to prevent it turning.
📋 Procedure
- Do do this, select electromechanical parking brake and "“moving parking brake motor to assembly position”" function.
- Use VAS 5051 to move parking brake motors to assembly position.
- Remove rear wheel.
- Remove brake caliper and secure with wire so that weight of brake caliper does not strain or damage brake hose.
- Remove brake disc/drum. [Note: Mark brake shoes when removing if they are to be reused. Fit in same position when installing, or braking will be uneven.]
- Remove brake shoes (see the separate procedure). [Note: If parking brake motor is to be reused, secure parking brake motor in brake shoe mounting with a cable tie to prevent it turning.]
- Secure parking brake motor mounting with cable tie (2) to prevent it turning.
- Unscrew brake carrier plate.
- Release and disconnect connector (1) on parking brake motor.
- Remove parking brake motor electrical wiring from clip and remove clip.
- Unscrew both multi-point socket head bolts (arrows) of parking brake motor (1).
- Remove parking brake motor.
- Install in reverse order.
- Then perform basic setting of electromechanical parking brake.
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