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11 - Mounting
❑ Renew if damaged
12 - Bolts
❑ 23 Nm
13 - Tailpipe
❑ Renewing ⇒ page 260
14 - Rear silencer
❑ In initial equipment, component with centre silencer. Can be renewed individually for repair purposes.
❑ Separating centre and rear silencers ⇒ page 259
❑ Aligning exhaust system free of tension ⇒ page 265 .
15 - Tailpipe
❑ Renewing ⇒ page 260
2.3 Separating centre and rear silencers
♦ The connecting pipe can be cut through at the cutting location
in order to renew the centre and rear silencers separately.
♦ Cutting location is marked by an indentation on the circumfer‐
ence of exhaust pipe.
Special tools and workshop equipment required
♦ Chain-type pipe cutter - VAS 6254-
Procedure:
– Cut through exhaust pipes at right angles at the position
marked -arrows- using chain pipe cutter - VAS 6254- .
Touareg 2010 ➤ , Touareg 2015 ➤
6-cylinder direct-injection engine (3.6 l engine, 4V) - Edition 12.2019
2. Silencers and catalytic converters 259