Vehicles with 2.0 l FSI engine and automatic gearbox — VW
Vehicles with 2.0 l FSI engine and automatic gearbox on VW: 25 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: platform code 5M1
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect battery .
- Disconnect connector (arrow).
- Unclip vacuum hose out of retainer (arrow).
- Loosen spring-type clip (arrow) from hose (1) using spring-type clip pliersVAS 5024.
- Pull hose (1) off air filter housing.
- Open retainer (arrow) on front of air filter housing and remove line/wire (1) from line/wiring retainer.
- Remove securing bolt from air filter housing (arrow).
- Pull air filter housing upwards on right-hand side out of rubber mounting (arrow).
- Loosen spring-type clip (1) using spring-type clip pliersVAS 5024.
- Pull hose (2) off connection.
- Carefully lift up air filter housing out of vehicle as far as wiring allows.
- Disconnect connector (arrow) on rear of air filter housing.
- Take air filter housing out of vehicle.
- Slide protective cap in direction of (arrow) off solenoid switch.
- Unscrew positive wire (1) and disconnect connector from terminal 50 (2).
- Remove noise insulation General body repairs, exterior50Body - front; Noise insulation.
- Remove securing nut (1) from lower securing bolt of starter.
- Remove wiring retainer (2).
- Remove lower securing bolt of starter (arrow).
- Remove securing nut (1) from upper securing bolt of starter.
- Remove wiring retainer (2).
- Remove upper securing bolt of starter (arrow).
- Remove securing nut of earth wire (1) and place end of earth wire (2) to one side.
- Remove starter from vehicle upwards.
- Tighten threaded connections to specified torques .
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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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