Removing and installing rotary light switchEX1: VW Polo 6C
Step-by-step removing and installing rotary light switchEX1 for the VW Polo 6C: 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 Polo 6C (2014–2017)
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- Turn rotary knob to "“0”" position in order to ensure that rotary light switchEX1 engages in dash panel.
📋 Procedure
- Switch off ignition and all electrical consumers.
- Remove ignition key.
- Turn rotary light switchEX1 to "“0”" position.
- Press in rotary knob of rotary light switchEX1(1) in opposite (direction of arrow A), and turn it in (direction of arrow B).
- Hold rotary knob in this position.
- Pull rotary light switchEX1(1) in (direction of arrow A) out of dash panel (2).
- Disconnect connector (arrow A).
- Remove rotary light switchEX1(1).
- Connect connector to rotary light switchEX1.
- Hold rotary light switchEX1, and press in rotary knob in (direction of arrow 1) while simultaneously turning it clockwise in (direction of arrow 2).
- Hold rotary knob in this position.
- Insert rotary light switchEX1 in (direction of arrow 3) in dash panel.
- Turn rotary knob to "“0”" position in order to ensure that rotary light switchEX1 engages in dash panel.
- Test functionality.
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