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Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Removing and installing door arrester

Special tools and workshop equipment required
   
   
  Note
The description of removal and installation only applies to the left wing. The right side is similar.
Removing
 

Torque wrench -V.A.G 1331-
 Torque wrench -V.A.G 1331-

Removing and installing door arrester

–  Remove front door trim → General body repairs, interior; Rep. gr.70.
–  Remove self-adhesive cover or front loudspeaker → Communication; Rep. gr.91.
–  Unscrew bolt -2- in A-pillar.
–  Unscrew bolts -3- and remove door arrester -1- through the opening of the loudspeaker -arrow a-.

 
Installing
   

Removing and installing door arrester

Install in reverse order of removal.
Specified torques
Door arrester → Chapter „Assembly overview - door“
Adjusting striker pin
Special tools and workshop equipment required         Torque wrench -V.A.G 1331- &nbs ...

Door components
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Without roller dynamometer for four-wheel drive vehicles
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