Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Removing and installing operating and display unit, air conditioning system with electric/manual controls and Climatronic

Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual / Heating, air conditioning / Air conditioner / Operating and display unit / Removing and installing operating and display unit, air conditioning system with electric/manual controls and Climatronic

Special tools and workshop equipment required

Removal wedge -3409-

Note

If a new Climatronic control unit -J255- or air conditioning system control unit -J301- is installed, the function "Renew control unit", the basic setting and an adaptation (“Compressor first run”) must be carried out in the "Guided fault finding" or in the "Guided functions".

In vehicles with start-stop system, note abort conditions: → Chapter

Removing

Note

The picure shows a vehicle with Climatronic. The removal and installation for vehicles with manual electronic air conditioning is identical.

Removing and installing operating and display unit, air conditioning system with electric/manual controls and Climatronic

–	Unclip trim -1- at marked points -arrows- in -direction of arrow- from operating and display unit using removal wedge -3409-.

Removing and installing operating and display unit, air conditioning system with electric/manual controls and Climatronic

–	Press operating and display unit in direction of the dash panel to release the expansion rivets.

–	Pull out spreader rivets -2- in -direction of arrow A-.

–	Remove operating and display unit -1- in -direction of arrow B-.

Installing

Note

Removing and installing operating and display unit, air conditioning system with electric/manual controls and Climatronic

Overview of fitting locations - operating and display unit, Climatronic

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