Audi Q7: Mounting Bracket, Removing and Installing
Removing
NOTICE
Risk of damaging the operating cable by deforming it.
- Never sharply bend or kink the operating cable.
Special tools and workshop equipment required
- Pry Lever -80-200-
Removing
- Move the door window into the "closed" position.
- Remove the door inner cover. Refer to → Chapter "Door Inner Cover, Removing and Installing".
- Remove the door handle. Refer to → Chapter "Door Handle, Removing and Installing".
- Unclip the backing plates -1 and 2- for the door handle.
- Equipped on some models: disengage the wire on the mounting bracket -arrow-.
- Free up the spiral clip -1- for the wire using the Pry Lever -80 - 200-.
- Remove the bolt -3-.
- Disengage the mounting bracket -2- toward the rear and carefully to the opening for the door inner cover, at the same time pay attention to the operating cable.
- Disengage the operating cable from the operating lever on the mounting bracket. Refer to → Chapter "Door Lock Cable, Removing and Installing".
Installing
- Engage the operating cable in the operating lever on the mounting bracket. Refer to → Chapter "Door Lock Cable, Removing and Installing".
- Bring the mounting bracket -2- into the installation position and on the outer door panel -1--arrows-.
Further installation is performed in reverse order of removal, while noting the following:
- Equipped on some models: the wiring harness for the exterior door handle touch sensor/exterior door handle illumination must be routed on the mounting bracket, that points to the outer door panel.
- Replace the backing plates for the door handles if damaged or brittle.
Note
If the wiring harness is not routed correctly, there may be noises when opening and closing the door window, because the door window grazes the wiring harness.
Tightening Specifications
- Refer to → Chapter "Overview - Door Handle and Mounting Bracket"
Door Lock Cable, Removing and Installing
NOTICE
Risk of damaging the operating cable by deforming it.
- Never sharply bend or kink the operating cable.
Removing
- Remove the door lock. Refer to → Chapter "Door Lock, Removing and Installing".
Cable, Disengaging at Door Lock:
- Turn the operating cable at the lever -2- 90º in the direction of -arrow A- and remove it from the cable bracket -1-.
- Rotate the operating cable on the door lock release lever -3- in the direction of -arrow B-.
- The operating cable must be aligned with the opening on the release lever.
- Disengage the operating cable from the release lever.
Cable, Disengaging at Mounting Bracket:
- Slightly remove the retaining bracket -1--arrow A- at the same time hold the operating lever -2-.
- Let the operating lever turn back slowly -arrow B-.
- Disengage the operating cable -1- on the operating lever by pressing the cable -3- out of the support bracket on the mounting bracket -2--arrow-.
- Remove the operating cable.
Installing
Cable, Engaging at Door Lock:
- Engage the operating cable -3- in the door lock operating lever -2-.
- Insert the operating cable in the cable bracket -1- and rotate the lever -4- 90º -arrow-.
- The lever must engage audibly with the locking tab on the cable bracket.
Cable, Engaging at Mounting Bracket:
- Engage the operating cable -3- on the operating lever -1-.
- Engage the operating cable in the cable bracket on the mounting bracket -2- -arrow-.
- Turn the operating lever -2- all the way in the direction of the -arrow B- and lock with the retaining bracket -1--arrow A-.
Further installation is the reverse order of removal.
