Vehicles with coarse-splined steering wheel — VW
Vehicles with coarse-splined steering wheel 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
Fits: platform codes 1G1, 1G2
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- Press support ring into steering lock housing. Ensure that support ring (arrow) is pressed in fully.
- If necessary, slide steering lock housing back until it rests on spacer sleeve.
- In vehicles with mechanical steering box, an earth cable for horn must additionally be secured to steering box .
- Do not route earth cable beneath bolt for steering box adjustment cover.
📋 Procedure
- Press support ring into steering lock housing. Ensure that support ring (arrow) is pressed in fully.
- Slide steering lock housing onto steering column.
- Clamp lower section of steering column in a vice so that upper part is supported on jaws.
- Complete steering column
- Drive spacer sleeve onto steering column until dimension (a) is attained. Necessary gap (b) between steering wheel hub and steering column switch is attained as a result. [Note: If necessary, slide steering lock housing back until it rests on spacer sleeve.]
- In vehicles with mechanical steering box, an earth cable for horn must additionally be secured to steering box .
- Produce earth cable for horn to steering box: Approx. 120 mm long, 1.5 mm2, brown. Use terminal 111.71.950.
- Unscrew bolt (arrow A) for mounting bracket selector rod on steering box.
- Use new bolt M8×25 and nut M8.
- Secure earth cable. [Note: Do not route earth cable beneath bolt for steering box adjustment cover.]
- Position second cable connection on bolt (arrow B) and secure with additional nut M8.
- Protect cable connections against oxidation using underbody sealant.
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- Removing and installing front backrest, electrically adjustable front seat
- Dismantling and assembling seat pan, bucket seat
- Removing and installing backrest release mechanism trim, electrically adjustable front seat
- Removing and installing seat pan cover and padding, bucket seat
- Removing and installing window channel
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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.
Variants of the same model differ. Cross-check torque against the factory manual for your engine before final tightening.
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