Rear Door Window, Adjusting

Rear Door Window, Adjusting

Special tools, testers and auxiliary items required

• Socket (T10058)






• Use to adjust the height

• Side Window Installation Tool (V.A.G 1739)






• Use to adjust laterally.

• Gauge (T10391)






Lateral Adjustment






1 Door window

• The window regulator has adjusting screws at all attachment points and can be adjusted laterally on the B-pillar and on the C-pillar.

• Adjusting the top of the B- and C-pillars:

- Remove door trim.

- To adjust, loosen the locking nut - 3 - and turn the adjusting screw - 4 - using a TORX(R) socket wrench.

• Turn left - the door window rotates outward.

• Turn right - the door window rotates inward.

- Tighten the locking nut - 3 - after adjusting it.

• Adjusting the bottom of the B- and C-pillars:

• It is not necessary to remove the door trim panel.

- Pry the cap out at the bottom of the door.

- To adjust, loosen the locking nut - 3 - and turn the adjusting screw - 4 - using a TORX(R) socket wrench.

• Turn left - the door window rotates inward.

• Turn right - the door window rotates outward.

• Tighten the locking nut after adjusting.

2 Door inner panel

3 Nut

• 9 Nm

4 Adjusting screw

Upper adjusting screw

- To adjust, loosen the locking nut - 2 - and rotate the adjusting pins - 3 - using a TORX(R) socket wrench.






- Tighten the nut to the tightening specification after adjusting it. Refer to => [ (Item 3) Nut ].

• The upper edge of the glass will move toward the inside when the adjusting screw is turned to the right.

Lower adjusting screw

- To adjust, loosen the locking nut - 2 - and turn the adjusting pins - 3 - using a TORX(R) socket wrench.






- Tighten the nut to the tightening specification after adjusting it. Refer to => [ (Item 3) Nut ].

• The upper edge of the glass will move toward the outside when the adjusting screw is turned to the right.

Adjusting Height

- Gap dimensions, refer to => [ Rear Door Window Gap Dimensions ] Rear Door Window Gap Dimensions.






1 Adjusting screw

• 1 turn corresponds to approximately 1 mm.

• For adjusting the upper edge of the door window on the seal in the front or rear roof area

• Accessible through the holes on the bottom edge of the door. The door trim does not need to be removed.

- To adjust the height, turn the adjusting screw with a 5 mm hex socket wrench

2 Door window

3 Window regulator

Height adjustment adjusting screw






- Remove the caps from the bottom of the door.

- Insert a 5 mm hex socket wrench with ball head at an angle through the window regulator and into the adjusting screw - arrow - mount - 1 -.

- Turn the adjusting screw to adjust the height.