Shift Cable: Adjustments

Selector Lever cable, Adjusting

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Trim Removal Wedge (3409)

• Socket and Key (T40031)

Procedure

• Tightening specification, refer to => [ Selector Lever Cable Overview ] Description and Operation.

- Press the button for the parking brake to lock the electro-mechanical brake.

- Move the selector lever into D.

- Pry out the selector lever boot using the (3409) or a small screwdriver - arrows - and then fold it upward.





- Insert the (T40031) through the opening - arrow - in the selector mechanism and loosen the bolt on the selector lever cable one turn.





• Loosen the clamping screw approximately one turn but do not remove it.

• The clamping screw is only accessible when the selector lever is in the D position.

• The selector lever must remain in D when the clamping screw is loose.

- Carefully move selector lever lightly toward the front and rear without shifting into another selector lever position, this releases the tension on the selector lever cable.

- Move the selector lever into the tiptronic gate.

- Tighten the clamping screw in this position with the (T40031) without touching the selector lever.

- Selector mechanism, checking, refer to => [ Selector Mechanism, Checking ] Selector Mechanism, Checking.

If the shift mechanism does not function properly after adjusting selector lever cable:

- Bring the selector lever cable into the basic setting. Refer to => [ Selector Lever Cable, Bringing into Basic Setting ] Procedures.