Wheel bearing set - remove and install — VW
Wheel bearing set - remove and install on VW: 14 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 6A1, 6A5
📋 Procedure
- Loosen the wheel bolts.
- Raise the vehicle.
- Disassemble the wheel.
- Lift the brake.
- For such, press the wedge upwards through a brake drum orifice, using a screwdriver.
- Remove the bolt (1) and remove the brake drum (2).
- Remove the dust cover from its position by slightly tapping the claw on the hub cover pullerVW 637/2(1).
- Press the dust cover.
- loosen the twelve-point nut (1).
- Remove the wheel bearing set/wheel hub (2) from the axle pin.
- Carefully push the wheel bearing set/wheel hub (2) into the axle pin.
- Screw in a new twelve-point nut (1) and tighten to the indicated tightening torque.
- Install the new dust cover, using the pressure part3456(1) .
- Install the wheel and tighten .
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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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