Volkswagen Jetta / Jetta Hybrid. Service manual - part 15

1 - Gas strut

❑ Removing and installing

⇒ page 57

❑ Releasing gas

⇒ page 60

2 - Ball-head pin

❑ Only at right hinge
❑ Cannot be separated

from hinge

3 - Retaining bracket with ball-

head pin

❑ On rear wall
❑ Cannot be separated

from rear wall

2.5

Removing and installing gas strut

2.5.1

Removing

Note

The rear lid must be supported if a gas strut is removed.

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be levered completely out of ball socket, as it will otherwise be

damaged. Gas strut will spring out of mounting, causing dam‐

age or injury to operator.

Carry out following work:
– Open rear lid and brace it open.
– Position a small screwdriver -3- beneath spring clips -2-.
– Raise spring clips -2- until spring clips can be moved over ball

sockets.

– Pull gas strut -1- off ball-head pin.
After removing gas strut, slide spring clips -2- back immediately.

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be levered completely out of ball socket, as it will otherwise be

damaged. Gas strut will spring out of mounting, causing dam‐

age or injury to operator.

– Releasing gas from gas strut 

⇒ page 60

2.5.2

Installing

Carry out following work:
• Push spring clips -2- onto ball sockets of gas strut -1-.
– Push ball sockets of gas strut -1- onto ball-head pins until ball

sockets audibly engage with the ball-head pins.

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– Clamp gas strut in vice in area x = 50 mm.

WARNING

Clamp gas strut only within area -x-; otherwise danger of ac‐

cident!

– Saw through cylinder of gas strut within first third of cylinder's

overall length using piston rod end of cylinder as reference

point.

Note

♦

Wear eye protection when sawing.

♦

Cover area of saw cut with a cloth.

♦

Dispose of oil and cloth via existing disposal channels.

2.7

Assembly overview - rear lid hinge

1 - Rear lid

❑ Removing and installing

⇒ page 55

❑ Adjusting 

⇒ page 64

2 - Bolt

❑ Qty. 2 for each hinge.
❑ Specified torque: 9 Nm

3 - Hinge

❑ Removing and installing

⇒ page 61

4 - Gas strut

❑ Removing and installing

⇒ page 57

❑ Releasing gas

⇒ page 60

5 - Electrical wiring

❑ Clipped in place on

hinge

6 - Bolt

❑ Qty. 4 for each hinge.
❑ Specified torque: 9 Nm

7 - Spring

❑ Left and right.
❑ Engage in left hole

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