Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

• ● Lock carrier in service position =>Page 13-1.

Removing

Note:

Before removing, mark direction of ribbed belt with chalk or felt-tipped pen. Running a used belt in the opposite direction could destroy it.

Vehicles with air conditioner:

• ‒ → Slacken off bolts of tensioning roller for air-conditioner compressor ribbed belt -arrows-, slacken off ribbed belt and detach.

All models:

• ‒ → Swivel tensioner in direction of arrow to slacken off ribbed belt.
• ‒ Detach ribbed belt, slacken off tensioner.

Installing

Notes:

• ◆ Make sure the ribbed belt is properly seated.
• ◆ Ribbed belt layout => Page 13-21.

• ‒ Mount ribbed belt on pulleys of crankshaft, vane pump, tensioning roller and viscous fan.
• ‒ → Swivel ribbed belt tensioner in direction of arrow.
• ‒ As a final step, position ribbed belt on alternator pulley and slacken off tensioner.

Vehicles with air conditioner:

• ‒ Fit ribbed belt for air-conditioner compressor.
• ‒ → Position torque wrench, as shown at the 7 o'clock position, at hexagon of tensioning roller and pre-tension to 25 Nm.
• ‒ Simultaneously tighten bolts -A- to 20 Nm.

All models:

• ‒ Start engine and check belt routing.
• ‒ Install lock carrier =>Page 13-1.