Maintenance Procedures - Cabriolet

• 01 - Maintenance
  • Engine overview
  • Delivery inspection
    • Delivery inspection
  • Oil change service
    • Oil change service
  • Inspection service
    • Inspection Service
  • Description of work
    • All switches, all electrical components, all displays and other operating elements: Checking function
    • Final drive (automatic transmission): Check oil level, add oil if necessary
      • Automatic transmission
      • Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT)
    • Battery: Check
      • Battery with "magic eye"
      • Battery sealing plugs
      • Valve-regulated lead acid battery or absorbed glass mat (AGM) battery
    • Battery: No load voltage, checking before starting engine for the first time
      • Necessary test equipment
    • Battery: Ensure battery cable fits securely
    • Battery: Perform battery load test
      • Notes
      • Special tools, testers, and measuring equipment
      • Perform battery load test
      • Tester display during battery load test
      • Table:
    • Brake fluid level, dependent on lining wear: Check
      • Notes
      • Delivery inspection
      • Inspection service
    • Brake fluid: Changing
      • Notes
      • Table - Sequence / quantity of brake fluid
    • Brake system: Visual inspection for leaks and damage
    • Brake pads: Thickness, checking
    • Tires: Checking condition, wear pattern and tread depth and adjusting tire pressure.
      • Tires, checking
      • Delivery inspection
      • Inspection service
      • Checking tire wear pattern
      • Check tread depth.
      • Tire pressure, adjusting
      • Spare wheel
    • Set digital clock
      • Notes
      • Radio clock
      • Quartz clock
    • DTC memory: Retrieving with VAS 5051/ 5052
    • Electric windows: Check positioning
    • Check vehicle key function
    • Noise insulation: Removing
      • Vehicles with auxiliary heater:
    • Rear lid hinges: Lubricate
    • Power steering fluid: Check for leaks and fluid level, top off fluid, if necessary
    • Calibrate rearview mirror with compass
    • A/C system: Check function, set temperature to 72 F (22 C)
    • Instrument cluster: Adapt language version
    • Cooling system: Check freeze protection, add coolant, if necessary
    • Ribbed belt: Replacing
      • 8-cyl. 5V engines 4.2L
    • Air cleaner: Clean air filter housing and replace filter
      • Notes
      • 4-cyl. 2.0L FSI engines
      • 4-cyl. 1.8L Turbo engines
      • 6-cyl. 3.0L MPI engines
      • 6-cyl. 3.2L FSI engines
      • 8-cyl. 4.2L MPI engines
      • 8-cyl. 4.2L engines (RS4)
    • Engine oil: Fill
    • Engine: Oil level, checking
    • Engine cover: Removing
    • Engine (from above and below) and engine compartment: Visual inspection for leaks and damage
    • Hood safety catch: lubricating
    • Continuously Variable transmission (CVT) 01J: Changing ATF
    • Engine oil: Drain/extract, replace oil filter
      • Notes
      • 4-cyl. gasoline engines
      • 4-cyl. TFSI engines
      • 6-cyl. 3.2L FSI gasoline engines
      • 8-cyl. 4.2L MPI gasoline engines
      • 8-cyl. 4.2L FSI gasoline engines, RS4
    • Navigation: Eject button, unlocking
    • Test drive: Perform
    • Radio: Activate anti-theft coding by entering security code
    • Radio/navigation system Plus (Chorus, Concert, Symphony): Deactivating transport mode
      • Notes
      • Select mode of operation:
      • Select vehicle system:
      • End procedure
    • Tire repair kit: Checking
    • Wheel bolts: Tighten to correct torque setting
      • Center cap
      • Wheel bolts
      • Correct wheel installation
    • Windshield washer system: Checking nozzle setting, adjusting nozzles if necessary
      • Notes
      • Necessary special tools
      • Windshield spray jet setting
      • Rear window spray jet setting
      • Washer jet adjustment, front window (Cabriolet)
    • Service display: Resetting or adapting
      • Notes
      • Service display, resetting
      • Oil quality, adapting
      • Maximum values, adapting
      • Service display, resetting without VAS 5051/5052
    • Headlamp washer system: Check spray jet setting.
    • Front axle joints: Seal boots, checking play and secure fit.
    • Windshield wiper blades: Checking park position (Cabriolet)
    • Headlamps: Check setting, adjust if necessary
      • Notes
      • Check and adjustment conditions
      • Tank filling table
      • Headlamps, checking adjustment (with new test screen without 15 setting line)
      • Headlamps, adjusting
      • Fog lights:
    • Vehicle Electrical System Control Module - J519: coding
    • Dust and pollen filter: Replacing
    • Manual transmission/final drive: Check oil level, add oil if necessary
    • Windshield/headlamp wiper system: Filling with fluid
    • Door arrester and lock cylinder: Lubricate
    • Telematics: Emergency battery, replacing
      • Notes
      • Note before disconnecting battery.
    • Transport protection: Remove front and rear strut transportation protection devices
      • Notes
      • Front strut
      • Rear strut
    • Underbody protection: Visual inspection for damage
    • Anti-roll protection: Checking function (Cabriolet)
    • Plenum chamber cover: Removing
    • Winter tires from factory
    • Spark plugs: Replacing
      • Necessary special tools
      • 4-cyl. 1.8L
      • 4-cyl. 2.0L FSI and 2.0L TFSI engines
      • 6-cyl. engines 3.0L and 3.2L FSI:
      • 8-cyl. engines 4.2L MPI
      • 8-cyl. engines 4.2L (RS4)
    • Headlights: Aiming using Hella Universal Beamsetter IV
    • RAPGARD, inspection: Removal and disposal
    • Tire Pressure Monitoring System: Programming tire pressures
    • Timing belt: Replacing
      • 4-cyl. 5V 1.8L Turbo engines
      • 4-cyl. 2.0L 5V engines
      • 4-cyl. 4V 2.0L FSI engines
      • 4-cyl. 4V 2.0L TFSI engines
      • 6-cyl. 5V engines 2.4L; 3.0L;
      • Toothed belt change, filling out sticker - all
  • Type plate / Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
    • Type plate / Vehicle Identification Number (VIN)
  • Vehicle lifting
    • Vehicle lifting
  • Tow starting/towing
    • Tow starting/towing
  • Vehicle checks within inspection and
    • Vehicle checks within inspection and service framework