Removing and installing rear speed sensor wiring — VW
Removing and installing rear speed sensor wiring on VW: 15 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 code 6E1
📋 Procedure
- Note or request radio code on vehicles with coded radio if necessary.
- Disconnect battery Electrical system27Disconnecting and reconnecting battery.
- Remove wheel liner.
- Separate speed sensor wiring/speed sensor connection.
- Remove rear side panel trim. General body repairs, Interior70Pillars and side panel trims
- Separate speed sensor wiring (arrows) with wire strippers fromVAS 1978 and remove defective wiring.
- Strip 15 mm of insulation from end of wire with wire strippers and bend half of stripped wire back.
- Guide in new speed sensor wiring.
- Connect speed sensor to speed sensor wiring.
- Clip in speed sensor wiring (arrows).
- Cut 2-pin connector off new speed sensor wiring with wire stripper pliers.
- Strip 15 mm of insulation from end of wire with wire strippers and bend back half.
- Connect speed sensor wiring with aid of suitable crimp connector from wiring harness repair setVAS 1978.
- Install rear side panel trim. General body repairs, Interior70Pillars and side panel trims
- Install wheel liner.
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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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