Removing and installing riveted retaining strip — VW
Removing and installing riveted retaining strip 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 5C7, 5C1
📋 Procedure
- Remove trim on control link (1).
- Cover surrounding components and apertures in body to prevent any damage from swarf.
- Wrap adhesive tape around drill bit, leaving tip free, so that seal (3) is not damaged during drilling.
- Drill out pop rivets (4).
- Remove retaining strip with seal.
- Fit retaining strip with seal on control link (1).
- Secure pop rivets (4) using pop rivet pliersVAS 5072.
- Check door window adjustment .
- Check side window adjustment .
- Install side trim to convertible top .
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Who makes these pages, and how
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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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