Removing and installing shock absorber for adaptive chassis control DCC — VW
Removing and installing shock absorber for adaptive chassis control DCC on VW: 21 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 Sharan II / SEAT Alhambra (7N, 2010–)
📋 Procedure
- Loosen wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle.
- Remove wheel.
- Remove wheel housing liner General body repairs, exterior66..
- Unscrew rear left vehicle level sender G76 from lower transverse link.
- Remove coil springs .
- Disconnect connector and pull cable off shock absorber.
- Remove bolts from shock absorber.
- Pull rear body acceleration sender G343 off shock absorber mount.
- Remove bolt (arrow).
- Remove shock absorber.
- Put rear body acceleration sender G343 on shock absorber mount.
- Place bracket from rear onto shock absorber mount so that retaining lugs (1) engage in recesses in shock absorber mount.
- Turn bracket forwards so it makes contact with shock absorber mount.
- Install shock absorber and tighten bolts.
- Tighten bolt (arrow).
- Push plug onto rear left/right shock absorber damper adjustment valve N338/N339.
- Install coil spring .
- Screw rear left vehicle level sender G76 onto lower transverse link.
- Install wheel housing liner General body repairs, exterior66.
- Install wheel and tighten bolts or nuts .
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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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