Repairing trailing arm: VW Golf VII Variant / Golf VII
Step-by-step repairing trailing arm for the VW Golf VII Variant / Golf VII: 15 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 Golf VII Variant (BA), VW Golf VII (5G, 2012–2020); platform code BE1
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- Mark position of bonded rubber bush on trailing arm using a set square.
- Take great care to ensure that the installation position of the bonded rubber bush is correct relative to the bush in the trailing arm.
📋 Procedure
- Remove trailing arm with mounting bracket .
- Clamp trailing arm (1) in vice using protective jaw covers.
- Undo bolt (2) and remove mounting bracket (3) from trailing arm.
- Fit tools as shown in illustration.
- Press out bonded rubber bush.
- Mark position of bonded rubber bush on trailing arm using a set square.
- Position outer edge of set square on upper radius of hole (1) and on lower radius of hole (2).
- Make a mark above and below the trailing arm bush respectively (arrows). [Note: Take great care to ensure that the installation position of the bonded rubber bush is correct relative to the bush in the trailing arm.]
- Fit tools as shown in illustration.
- Pressing in bonded rubber bush.
- Clamp trailing arm (2) in vice using protective jaw covers.
- Position mounting bracket (1) on trailing arm (2).
- Screw in bolt (3)
- Set dimension (a) to 37 mm and tighten bolt (3).
- Install trailing arm with mounting bracket .
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (GOLF 6 (5K1)) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
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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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