Volkswagen Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

• Ignition/starter switch
• Locking cable
• ◆ Must not be kinked
• ◆ Adjusting
• ◆ Removing and installing => Page 37-30
• Clip
• ◆ For securing locking cable
• ◆ Always renew
• Selector lever handle
• Set screw, 1.5 Nm
• Cover
• ◆ With selector indicator

• Protective sleeve for selector lever
• Cover strip
• ◆ Insert in cover -Fig. 6 -
• Selector lever
• ◆ Dismantling and assembling => Page 37-23
• ◆ To remove selector lever, lower protective plate is removed and front protective plate removed and pushed forward.
• ◆ When installing selector lever, insert locking cable anchorage in notch of selector lever housing.
• ◆ Securing wiring loom to selector lever housing => Fig. 2

• Nuts
• ◆ To secure central console
• Distance piece
• Gasket
• ◆ Always renew
• Selector lever housing
• ◆ Need not be removed to renew selector lever cable or individual parts of shift mechanism
• ◆ Removing and installing => Fig. 1
• Screw, 25 Nm
• Nut, 15 Nm
• ◆ Always renew
• ◆ Qty. 3

• Protective sleeve
• ◆ Insert into selector lever housing before attaching selector lever cable =>Fig. 4
• Hexagon nut, 25 Nm
• ◆ With shoulder
• Selector lever cable
• ◆ Do not bend or kink, lightly grease cable eye and cable ends before installing.
• ◆ To remove selector lever, lower protective plate is removed, exhaust system is separated in front of catalyst (catalyst is removed on 6-Cyl. engines) and front protective plate removed.
• ◆ Tighten selector lever cable on cable anchorage/selector lever housing to 20 Nm

• ◆ Check guide tube for tight fit
• ◆ Check protective sleeve between console and lever/gearshift shaft for proper seating and secure selector lever cable with corrugated locking element
• ◆ Attach selector lever cable to selector lever => Fig. 5
• ◆ Adjusting => Page 37-3

• Seal
• ◆ Bonded to cable anchorage
• ◆ Renew if damaged
• Circlip
• ◆ Install after fitting selector lever cable => Fig. 5
• Washer
• Bolt, 6 Nm

• Gearbox
• Lever
• ◆ For selector shaft
• Console
• ◆ With cable anchorage for selector lever cable
• Washer
• Combi-bolt, 25 Nm
• Corrugated locking element
• ◆ For selector lever cable
• ◆ Always renew

→ Fig.1     Removing and installing selector lever housing

• ‒ Remove rear central console.
• ‒ Remove hexagon nut with shoulder.
• ‒ Remove lower protective plate.
• ‒ Disconnect Lambda probe connector, separate exhaust system in front of catalyst (remove catalyst on vehicles with 6-Cyl. engine).
• ‒ Remove front protective plate and rear bolts (arrows).

→ Fig.2     Securing wiring loom to selector lever housing

• ‒ Press wiring loom into clips and into selector lever housing (arrows).

→ Fig.3     Attaching selector lever cable to selector lever

• ‒ Fit selector lever cable eye (arrow) on selector lever and secure with circlip.

→ Fig.4     Insert boot in selector lever housing

• ‒ Before installing the selector lever cable insert boot (arrow).