Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

Removing

• ‒ Remove centre console.

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• ‒ Release handbrake.
• ‒ → Unscrew the relevant adjusting nut -arrow-, so that the handbrake cable can be pulled out of the compensating bar.
• ‒ Raise vehicle.
• ‒ Remove wheel.

• ‒ → Detach clip -1-.
• ‒ Push the handbrake lever -2- in direction of arrow and detach handbrake cable -3-.

• ‒ → Unclip handbrake cable from bracket on rear axle beam -arrow A- and out of bracket -arrow-.

• ‒ → Pull the handbrake cable out of the guide tube -1- in direction of arrow.

Installing

• ‒ Push handbrake cable into guide tube.
• ‒ → Push the handbrake lever -2- in direction of arrow and attach handbrake cable -3-.
• ‒ Install clip -1-.

• ‒ → Clip the handbrake cable in the bracket at the rear axle beam -arrow A-.
• ‒ The clamp ring on the handbrake cable must be positioned in the centre of the clip.
• ‒ Engage handbrake cable in bracket -arrow-.

• ‒ Push the handbrake cable into the compensating bar.

• ‒ → Pretension the handbrake cable using the relevant adjusting nut -arrows-.
• ‒ Adjusting handbrake =>Page46-57.
• ‒ Install centre console,

=> General Body Assembly, Interior; Repair group 68; Storage compartments, covers and trims; Removing and installing centre console