Renewing speedometer drive wheel: VW Passat B5
Step-by-step renewing speedometer drive wheel for the VW Passat B5: 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: VW Passat B5 (3B)
📋 Procedure
- Turn steering to left to full lock.
- If fitted, remove cover above left-hand drive shaft.
- Unbolt drive shaft from flange shaft.
- Place drip tray underneath.
- Remove flange shaft, bolting puller T10037 to cover for differential (arrow).
- Pull out flange shaft oil seal using oil seal extractorVW 681.
- Remove speedometer sender.
- Press retaining clips in direction of arrows with a screwdriver.
- Remove drive wheel by levering out, alternating between sides.
- Drive in flange shaft with driftVW 295.
- Top up gear oil .
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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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