Removing and installing wheel bearing unit, vehicles with drum brake — VW
Removing and installing wheel bearing unit, vehicles with drum brake on VW: 13 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 Polo 6C (2014–2017)
- Special tools named: puller
📋 Procedure
- Raise vehicle.
- Remove wheel.
- Release brake.
- To do this, insert a screwdriver through a hole in the brake drum and push the wedge upwards.
- Unscrew bolt for brake drum and remove brake drum.
- Loosen grease cap from seat by tapping lightly on the claw of the hub grease cap puller VW 637/2.
- Pry off grease cap.
- Remove 12-point nut.
- Pull wheel hub/wheel bearing unit from stub axle.
- Carefully push wheel hub/wheel bearing unit onto stub axle.
- Use and tighten new 12-point nut.
- Drive in dust cap.
- Install wheel and tighten bolts or nuts .
🎬 Video walkthrough
Independent video tutorial by AUTODOC (YouTube) — a helpful visual companion to the steps above.
How to change rear wheel bearing VW Polo TUTORIAL
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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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