Repairing wheel bearing unit: VW Touareg II
Step-by-step repairing wheel bearing unit for the VW Touareg II: 10 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 Touareg II (7P, 2010–2018)
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- Use a standard commercially available splitting device, e.g. Kukko 15/3 with 17/3.
- Avoidance of dirt and seal damage when placing on a surface/storing away. — When placing wheel bearing unit on a surface, always make sure the hub (2) faces downwards.
- Machined surface of wheel bearing outer race faces downwards.
- When placing on a surface or pressing in, make sure that there is no dirt between thrust plateVW 401(5) and ball bearing (4). — Press wheel hub into wheel bearing.
📋 Procedure
- Remove wheel bearing unit
- Use special tools as illustrated.
- Press wheel hub out of wheel bearing.
- Insert splitter between bearing inner race (1) and wheel hub (2) and pretension with spindle. [Note: Use a standard commercially available splitting device, e.g. Kukko 15/3 with 17/3.]
- Use special tools as illustrated.
- Press bearing inner race off wheel hub.
- ⚠ Avoidance of dirt and seal damage when placing on a surface/storing away. — When placing wheel bearing unit on a surface, always make sure the hub (2) faces downwards.
- Use special tools as illustrated. [Note: Machined surface of wheel bearing outer race faces downwards.]
- ⚠ When placing on a surface or pressing in, make sure that there is no dirt between thrust plateVW 401(5) and ball bearing (4). — Press wheel hub into wheel bearing.
- Install wheel bearing unit
🎬 Related video tutorial
Independent AUTODOC tutorial for the same job, filmed on a different model (PASSAT B7 Saloon) — the technique carries over, the fasteners and figures on this page are the ones for your car.
How to change rear wheel bearing on VW PASSAT B7 Saloon
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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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