This document provides instructions for removing and installing a rocker panel cover on an Audi S4. The key steps are: 1. Remove the rear trim piece and front end piece. 2. Remove Phillips-head screws, twist locks, and cap nuts to detach the cover. 3. Press the wheelhousing liner aside and remove hex nuts and bolts to fully separate the cover. 4. Installation is the reverse process of reattaching with all hardware.

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Rocker panel cover, removing
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1 - Hex nut
1 Nm
2 - Retaining strip
Adhesive surfaces must be free of dust and
grease before pressing on retaining strip.
Self-adhesive, remove protective foil just
prior to assembly.
- Use hot air gun to warm retaining strip to
approx. 40 C (max 50 C) before
assembly.
- Center retaining strip using one hollow
rivet at the front and one at the rear.
- Press complete surface of retaining strip
securely into adhesive areas at sill.
- Rivet retaining strip to sill, starting at
front and moving toward rear.
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3 - Hollow rivet
5x.
4 - Bracket
5 - Collar screw
1.5 Nm.
6 - Phillips-head screw
1.5 Nm.
7 - Rear trim piece
Removing Fig. 2 .
8 - Rocker panel cover for sill
Before removing, remove rear trim piece -
7- Fig. 2 .
Remove front end piece -10-.
- Remove Phillips-head screws -6- at front
and rear.
- Disengage twist locks -12- and remove.
- Remove cap nuts -11-.
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- Remove bolts for securing wheelhousing liner
near hex nuts -1-.
- Press wheelhousing liner to side and remove
hex nuts -1-.
- Bolts for securing the EVAP canister must also
be removed on right-hand side.
- Pull rocker arm cover slightly forward out of
bracket -4- and remove from sill.
9 - Mount for twist lock
Tab on mount must face vehicle interior.
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10 - Front end piece
Removing Fig. 1 .
11 - Cap nut
1.5 Nm.
12 - Twist lock
Notch (arrow) must face front of vehicle.
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Fig. 1 Removing and installing front end piece
- Remove front wheel.
- Drill rivet heads off hollow rivets -3- an knock rivet shaft through.
- Remove wheelhousing liner bolts around front end piece.
- Press wheelhousing liner to side and remove hex nut -2-.
- Remove front end piece -1- from fender toward side.
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Fig. 2 Removing and installing rear trim piece
- Drill rivet head off hollow rivet -2- an knock rivet shaft through.
- Push pin through expanding clip and remove expanding clip from trim
piece.
- Pin is required when reinstalling expanding clip.
- Pull trim piece up and out of bracket first and then remove.
- For further removal of rocker panel cover, remove Phillips-head screws
(arrows).
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