Removing and installing wheel bearing housing, front-wheel drive — VW
Removing and installing wheel bearing housing, front-wheel drive on VW: 26 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 B7 saloon (362, 2010–2014), VW Passat B7 Variant (365, 2010–2014)
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- Install bolts for track rod (1), upper transverse link (2) and lower transverse link (3), but do not tighten.
- When installing the wheel bearing pre-seal (1), make sure that the hole (arrow) is centred on the speed sensor (2). — Fit cover plate.
📋 Procedure
- Loosen wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle.
- Remove wheel.
- Remove coil springs .
- Remove wheel bearing unit
- Take off cover.
- Remove ABS speed sensor out of wheel bearing housing.
- Remove bolt (arrow).
- Remove bolt for track rod (1), upper transverse link (2) and lower transverse link (3) from wheel housing (4).
- Remove coupling rod (arrow) from wheel bearing housing.
- Hold wheel bearing housing and unscrew bolts (arrows).
- Remove coupling rod (1) from trailing arm.
- Install bolts for track rod (1), upper transverse link (2) and lower transverse link (3), but do not tighten.
- Attach coupling rod (arrow) to wheel bearing housing (4) hand-tight.
- Screw in bolts (arrows) and fit coupling rod (1) to trailing arm.
- Tighten bolt (arrow) for shock absorber.
- Install coil spring .
- Tighten bolt for track rod (1), upper transverse link (2) and lower transverse link (3).
- Tighten nut for coupling rod (arrow).
- Tighten bolts (arrow).
- ⚠ When installing the wheel bearing pre-seal (1), make sure that the hole (arrow) is centred on the speed sensor (2). — Fit cover plate.
- Install wheel bearing unit
- Install ABS speed sensor in wheel bearing housing.
- Install brake disc.
- Install brake carrier with brake caliper Brake systems46Rear brake; Assembly overview - rear brake.
- Install wheel and tighten bolts or nuts .
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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.
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