Removing and installing sunroof roller blind

Special tools and workshop equipment required

Removing

Torque wrench -V.A.G 1783-

• Remove glass panel → Chapter.
• If drive is defective, remove glass panel → Chapter.
• Pull self-adhesive insulation -3- off.
• Remove bolts -2-.
• Pull out cover upwards at an angle -arrows-.

• Remove glass panel → Chapter.
• Undo screws -3- and remove handle -4-.
• Remove bolts -5-.

Note

• If the sun blind is to be reused, it is vital to ensure that the steel strips are not kinked.

• If a steel strip is kinked, a new sun blind has to be fitted.

• Lift sun blind -1- at rear on right and left -arrow a- and push uniformly to the rear -arrow b- and pull out of the guide rails -3-.
• Push slider -3- into rib -arrow c- and remove from guide -arrow d-.
• Remove sun blind -1- from assembly frame.

If required for subsequent work, the pulling rib can be removed from sun blind → Anchor.

Installing

Note

• When installing the sun blind, it is vital to ensure that the steel strips are not kinked.

• If a steel strip is kinked, a new sun blind has to be fitted.

l	Pulling rib is installed → Anchor.

• Insert right and left carriers -2- into guide rails -3--arrow a-.
• Make sure that carriers are in correct position at top -arrow b- and bottom -arrow c- on guide rail.

• Insert slider -2- into guides -8--arrows a-.
• Make sure that the sliders are in correct position in relation to guide rails.

• Tighten bolts -5-.
• Fit handle -4- and tighten screws -3-.

Specified torques

Handle → Chapter „Assembly overview - sunroof roller blind“

• Push cover onto assembly frame.
• Tighten bolts -2-.
• Attach self-adhesive insulation -3-.

Specified torques

Cover → Chapter „Assembly overview - sliding sunroof“

Removing and installing pulling rib Removing:

• Remove glass panel → Chapter.
• Removing sliding sunroof roller blind → Chapter.
• Pull slider -2- on left and right out of pulling rib -4--arrows a-.
• Pull pulling rib off fabric of sliding sunroof roller blind -7--arrow b-.

Installing:

• Push tensioning wire -5- into sun blind fabric -6-.
• Push pulling rib -4- onto fabric of sun blind.
• Push slider -2- with spring -3- into pulling rib.

Further installation is performed in the reverse order of removal.