1999 AUDI A4 brake

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Lower control arm, removing
and installing

Removing

Vehicle must be standing on its wheels
above vehicle lift

- Remove wheel trim.
On light alloy wheels use puller in vehicle tool kit to remove trim cap
- Loosen wheel bolts.
- Raise vehicle on lift.
- Remove wheel.

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- Remove bracket for ABS wheel speed sensor cable.
- Extract brake fluid from reservoir:
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Note:
On vehicles with headlight range control, the linkage for the headlight
range control must be disconnected to remove the rear axle or lower
control arm page 42
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. - Disconnect brake line at points indicated.

- Remove self-locking nut and bolt mounting lower control arm to
suspension strut (arrow -1-) page 42
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- Remove parking brake cable:

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- Remove eccentric bolt for wheel bearing housing to lower control arm
(arrow -2-) page 42
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.

Note:
Only one bolt is shown to simplify the illustration. - Remove both mounting bolts for subframe to lower control arm (arrow)
page 42
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.
- Remove control arm.
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- Always replace bolts and nuts.

- Bleed brake system:

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- Check wheel alignment and adjust if necessary
page 44
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