Removing and installing steering column switch, vehicles ▸ 09.99 — VW
Removing and installing steering column switch, vehicles ▸ 09.99 on VW: 11 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: platform code 6N1
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect battery .
- To remove the lower trim of the steering column switch, remove both cross-head screws (arrows).
- Removing lower steering column trim
- Remove driver side airbag General body repairs, interior69Airbag.
- Remove steering wheel Running gear, axles, steering48Removing and installing steering wheel ▸ 09.99.
- Detach connector (arrow) from resetting unit.
- Pull connector off steering lock housing.
- Removing upper steering column trim
- Remove securing bolts (arrows).
- Disconnect connectors to turn signal switch and wiper switch.
- Pull off turn signal and windscreen wiper switch from steering column.
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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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