Exhaust System, Installing

Exhaust System, Installing

• Align exhaust system when cold.

Vehicles without double clamps between center and rear muffler

- Loosen clamping sleeves bolts => [ (Item 2) Front clamping sleeve ] Exhaust System Assembly Overview.

- Press exhaust system forward - arrow - far enough until pretension on retaining loops at rear mufflers - a - = 13 to 17 mm.





- Tighten the clamping sleeve threaded connections evenly to 23 Nm.

- Align the tail pipes.

Vehicles with double clamps between center and rear muffler

• Only for vehicles with double clamps between center and rear mufflers, the center muffler must also be aligned.

- Loosen bolts of double clamps => [ (Item 2) Front clamping sleeve ] Exhaust System Assembly Overview and => [ (Item 8) Rear clamping sleeve ] Exhaust System Assembly Overview.

- Push forward part of exhaust system far enough forward - arrow - until pre-load on retaining loops on center muffler - a - = 9 to 13 mm.





- Tighten the clamping sleeve front threaded connections evenly to 23 Nm.

- Push rear part of exhaust system far enough forward - arrow - until pre-load on retaining loops at rear on rear muffler - a - = 13 to 17 mm.





- Align rear muffler horizontally.

- Tighten the clamping sleeve rear threaded connections evenly to 23 Nm.

- Align the tail pipes.

Align the tail pipes





- Check distance of left and right tail pipes to bumper cover:

• Dimension - x - left = dimension - x - right.

If necessary, correct dimension "x" as follows:

- Loosen threaded connections - arrow - of brace between exhaust pipes.





- Adjust the distance between the rear mufflers.

- Tighten the threaded fastener to 23 Nm.

- Check the tail pipe distances - y - and - z - to the bumper cover:





• Dimension - y - = 18.5 to 23.0 mm.

• Dimension - z - Sedan = 5.5. to 10.5 mm.

• Dimension - z - Avant = 11.5 to 16.5 mm.

- If necessary, check whether the exhaust system is aligned tension-free. Refer to => [ Exhaust System, Installing ] Exhaust System, Installing.