Removing and installing slave start point, vehicles from 05/05 — VW
Removing and installing slave start point, vehicles from 05/05 on VW: 12 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 Touareg I (7L, 2002–2010)
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- When installing the hydraulic fluid reservoir, ensure that it is inserted correctly in the bracket for hydraulic fluid reservoir and jump starting point.
📋 Procedure
- ⚠ When batteries are disconnected and reconnected, the procedure described in the workshop manual must be strictly followed . If the sequence is not maintained, the battery isolator may be triggered and the electrical equipment of the vehicle may be damaged. — Disconnect battery .
- Lift up cap of positive terminal (1) and lid (2).
- Remove securing nuts (1) (AF 13) and take off lines (2) and (5) from connection studs.
- Unscrew positive terminal (2) (AF 17).
- Remove securing bolt (4).
- Remove housing of slave start point upwards from bracket, taking into consideration the length of the wiring connected.
- Disengage both locking lugs (arrows) and pull off connecting piece of B+ line (1) downwards out of jump starting point housing.
- Unscrew securing bolt (1) of hydraulic fluid reservoir (2), remove hydraulic fluid reservoir (2) from bracket for hydraulic fluid reservoir and jump starting point and place it to one side with hoses still connected.
- Unscrew securing bolt (1) and securing nut (3) and remove bracket for hydraulic fluid reservoir and jump starting point (2) from vehicle.
- When installing the hydraulic fluid reservoir, ensure that it is inserted correctly in the bracket for hydraulic fluid reservoir and jump starting point.
- Tighten all threaded connections to prescribed torque settings .
- ⚠ When batteries are reconnected, the procedure described in the workshop manual must be strictly followed . If the sequence is not maintained, the battery isolator may be triggered and the electrical equipment of the vehicle may be damaged.Observe notes for battery terminal clamp bolt . — Reconnect battery .
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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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