Selector Lever Handle

Selector Lever Handle

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Hose clamp pliers (V.A.G 1275)

Removing

- Place selector lever in position "N".

• The selector lever handle is removed together with the selector lever boot.

- Unclip mounting frame for selector lever boot - 1 - from center console and lift it upward and off - arrows -.





- Secure lock button in pulled-out position using a cable tie - arrow - as shown in illustration.





- Flip selector lever boot - 1 - upward and over selector lever handle - 2 -.





- Open clamp - arrow - and pull off selector lever handle together with selector lever boot, without touching lock button.

Installing

• To install selector lever handle, lock button must be pulled out as far as stop and secured with a cable tie - arrow - or using the assembly aid included with new handle.





• If the lock button was not secured, it must not be pulled out from the handle using mechanical aids. Apply compressed air gun to bottom of handle and press lock button out with compressed air.

- Place selector lever handle completely onto selector lever - lock button faces toward driver.

• When doing this, handle must engage into ring groove of the selector lever.

- Remove cable tie or assembly aid, lock button mechanism engages in vertical groove on selector lever.

- If necessary, press lock button back into selector lever handle.

- Clamp selector lever handle - 2 - to selector lever, using clamp - arrow -. To do this, use the hose clamp pliers (V.A.G 1275).





- Clip retaining frame for selector lever boot - 1 - onto center console.

Separating selector lever boot from selector lever handle

Removing

- Remove selector lever handle.

- Bind spring tabs - 1 - of selector lever handle together with a cable tie - 3 -, as shown in the illustration.





- Push sleeve - 2 - of the selector lever boot over retaining tabs on the spring tabs - arrow -.

- Remove cable tie and remove sleeve with selector lever boot from selector lever.

Installing

Install in reverse order of removal, note the following:

Installation position of selector lever boot:

• The longer side of the selector lever boot frame faces toward driver's side (to Selector Lever Transmission Range (TR) Position Display (Y26)).

- Install selector lever handle.