Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Removing undamaged rear window   WARNING Always wear safety goggles and leather gloves when removing window. –  Remove rear shelf. –  Unplug electrical connectors for heated rear window and window aerial, move towards centre of window and secure with adhesive tape. –  Use wire reel -VAS 6452/1- to reel off about 6.5 metres of cutting wire (corresponding to 6 turns) and cut off.

–  Mask over outlet of awl at bottom of body flange with adhesive tape -1- to avoid damage. –  Thread both ends of cutting wire -3- into awl -2- and pull through to the inside.

–  Position cutting wire under glass all round rear window, as shown. –  Position cutting wire around rear window (under window), as shown.   Caution The wire ends must not be twisted at the point where they pass through the adhesive bead -arrow-.

–  Attach both reels to inside of window, as shown.

–  Insert end of cutting wire -1- into reel -2-. –  Tension cutting wire with reel -1- and insert plastic film -2- from removal kit -VAS 6452- as protection between wire and rear shelf.

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–  Cut clear the first area. While doing so, wire is guided into integrated idler pulley -arrow- on reel.

–  Additionally insert guide awl -2- into adhesive bead, as shown, and attach it to window using suction pad so that wire runs along window as close to the glass as possible.

–  Adjust reel and guide awl, as shown, and cut clear area on D-pillar. –  Adjust reel and guide awl, as shown.

–  Continue cutting window clear up to around its centre.

–  Use second reel to cut clear bottom area of window.

–  Move reel up and insert guide awl, as shown.

–  Cut window clear upwards along D-pillar.

–  Adjust reel over centre of window and adjust via first reel as shown and cut window fully clear at top. –  Remove window from window opening using suction lifters.