Removing and installing rear air ducts — VW
Removing and installing rear air ducts 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
Fits: platform codes 5C7, 5C1
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect battery Electrical system27.
- Remove driver and front passenger seats General body repair, interior72.
- Remove centre console General body repair, interior68.
- Remove cover for foot support General body repair, interior68.
- Detach floor covering in driver footwell and on front passenger side.
- Fold back floor covering enough so that both air ducts are completely visible.
- Detach air ducts (2) from floor panel (3) and lift up slightly.
- Pull off air ducts (2) from heater and air conditioning unit (1).
- Fit air ducts (2) (angled slightly) on heater and air conditioning unit (1).
- Clip in air ducts (2) on floor panel (3).
- Check again that air ducts (2) are seated correctly on heater and air conditioning unit (1).
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- Installing gearbox, CC, Golf Cabriolet, vehicles with 1.4 l petrol engine, engine lifting eyes »at front« of engine
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- Installing gearbox, Golf Cabriolet, vehicles with turbo diesel engine, engine lifting eyes »next to each other« on engine
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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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