Removing and installing spring, multi-link suspension, left spring — VW
Removing and installing spring, multi-link suspension, left spring on VW: 19 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 Golf Sportsvan (AM1, 2014–2020)
- Special tools named: spring compressor
- Renewed: lower spring plate
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- Use a spanner or a reversible ratchet handle to compress spring compressor.
- Bead of spring seat (arrow) must lie against coil spring correctly.
📋 Procedure
- Loosen wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle.
- Remove wheel.
- Press lugs (arrows) of assembly aid (1) inwards.
- Remove assembly aid (1) upwards.
- Insert spring compressor(3).
- ⚠ Ensure that coil spring is correctly seated in spring retainersV.A.G 1752/3A(2). — Compress coil springs until they can be removed. [Note: Use a spanner or a reversible ratchet handle to compress spring compressor.]
- Check that the lower spring plate is not damaged.
- If necessary, replace the lower spring plate.
- Place lower plate onto bottom of coil spring.
- Mount spring together with spring plate.
- The bottom spring seat has a pin.
- Insert this pin in holes in lower transverse link (arrow).
- Insert upper spring seat into upper end of spring.
- Bead of spring seat (arrow) must lie against coil spring correctly.
- Release tension on coil spring while locating upper spring seat on lug on body.
- Remove spring compressor.
- Insert assembly aid (1) and press downwards.
- Lugs (arrows) must engage.
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (GOLF 3 1H1 Hatchback) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
How to change springs on VW GOLF 3 1H1 Hatchback
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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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