Removing and installing subframe without steering rack, e-Golf — VW
Removing and installing subframe without steering rack, e-Golf on VW: 20 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 BE1
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- Tighten the nuts (arrows) in unladen state .
📋 Procedure
- Loosen wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle.
- Remove wheels.
- Remove lower noise insulation General body repairs, exterior66Noise insulation; Assembly overview - noise insulation.
- Remove skid plate for battery General body repairs, exterior66Underbody cover; Assembly overview - underbody covers.
- Unscrew bolts (1) for pendulum support.
- Unscrew nut (1) from coupling rod (3) on both sides.
- Pull out coupling rod (3) from anti-roll bar (2) on left and right side.
- Remove nuts (arrows) on left and right sides of vehicle.
- Disconnect connector (1) on front left vehicle level sender G78 and/or front right vehicle level sender G289, as applicable.
- Unscrew bolts (1) for steering rack.
- Prise steering rack out of dowel sleeves of subframe.
- Position engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A(1) under subframe
- Fixing subframe and lowering approx. 10 cm.
- Pull out spreader clip (arrow).
- Lower subframe with engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A.
- Secure subframe on engine and gearbox jackV.A.G 1383 A.
- Secure steering rack to body.
- Tighten nuts (arrows). [Note: Tighten the nuts (arrows) in unladen state .]
- On vehicles with vehicle level sender, carry out basic settings for wheel damper electronics .
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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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