Removing and installing starter, 3.6 l FSI engine, dual clutch gearbox (DSG) — VW
Removing and installing starter, 3.6 l FSI engine, dual clutch gearbox (DSG) on VW: 17 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 Passat CC (357, 2008–2012), VW CC (358, 2012–2017)
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- To avoid corrosion damage, do not loosen earth cable from earth point on body.
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect battery .
- Loosen spring-type clips (1) using spring-type clip pliersVAS 5024 A and disconnect connector (2).
- Release locking lug (arrow) and remove cover in direction of (arrow).
- Release locking lugs (arrows) and pull air duct forwards in direction of (arrow) out of retainer.
- Remove securing bolt from air filter housing (arrow).
- Pull air filter housing upwards out of its rubber mounting.
- Take air filter housing out of vehicle.
- Unbolt earth cable (arrow) from gearbox and lay to the side. [Note: To avoid corrosion damage, do not loosen earth cable from earth point on body.]
- Remove securing bolts for air filter housing bracket (arrows).
- Remove air filter housing bracket from vehicle.
- Remove noise insulation Exterior equipment66Noise insulation; Removing and installing noise insulation.
- Remove lower securing bolt (arrow) from starter.
- Disconnect connector (1) and push protective cap (2) down from solenoid switch in direction of (arrow).
- Remove securing nut (arrow) and place positive wire aside.
- Remove upper securing bolt of starter (arrow).
- Remove starter from vehicle upwards.
- Tighten threaded connections to torques specified in assembly overview .
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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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