Vehicles with a 1.4 l injection engine and automatic gearbox — VW
Vehicles with a 1.4 l injection engine and automatic gearbox on VW: 12 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
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- To gain access to the rear starter securing bolt (stud) (3), unclip the cable duct (1) from the starter rib (2), from the stud (3) and from the gearbox lifting eye (4) and place it to one side.
- Ensure that the cable duct (1) is closed and is properly clipped in the lifting eye of the gearbox (4), to the rear starter securing bolt (stud) (3) and to the starter rib (2).
📋 Procedure
- Disconnect battery (see the separate procedure).
- Release and disconnect terminal 50 connector (3).
- Pull plastic cap (2) off.
- Remove the securing nut behind this and disconnect wire (1) from solenoid-operated switch/terminal (repair group 30).
- Remove securing nut (5).
- Disconnect earth wire (7) and remove the starter securing bolt (6) behind this.
- Remove upper securing bolt (8) of starter.
- Remove the third securing bolt located behind the starter (stud 13 mm) (3). [Note: To gain access to the rear starter securing bolt (stud) (3), unclip the cable duct (1) from the starter rib (2), from the stud (3) and from the gearbox lifting eye (4) and place it to one side.]
- Remove starter downwards from the vehicle.
- Ensure that the cable duct (1) is closed and is properly clipped in the lifting eye of the gearbox (4), to the rear starter securing bolt (stud) (3) and to the starter rib (2).
- Tighten all threaded connections to the specified torques (value given in the factory table, not available here).
- Reconnect battery (see the separate procedure).
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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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