How To Replace AC Compressor Serpentine Belt 2005-10 2-5L VW Jetta
Created on: 2015-02-09
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken, noisy, squeaky, worn or groaning AC compressor serpentine belt on 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10 Volkswagen Jetta.
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step 1 :Removing the Wheel
- Loosen the lug nut covers with a pick
- Loosen one of the lug bolts with a key found by the spare tire
- Loosen the 17mm lug bolts with the vehicle on the ground
- Raise the vehicle with a floor jack
- Secure the vehicle on jack stands
- Remove the lug nuts
- Pull off the wheel
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step 2 :Removing the AC Compressor Belt
- Remove the T25 screws along the splash shield and inner fender
- Remove the inner fender
- Place a 15mm socket and ratchet
- Pull back on the tensioner
- Pull the belt off the pulley
- Release the tensioner
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step 3 :Installing the New AC Compressor Belt
- Insert the ratchet to the tensioner
- Place the belt on the larger tensioner
- Pull back on the tensioner
- Pull the belt onto the pulley
- Release the tensioner
- Insert the inner fender into place
- Insert the T25 screws along the splash shield and inner fender
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step 4 :Reattaching the Wheel
- Slide the wheel into place
- Start the lug bolts by hand
- Tighten the lug bolts preliminarily
- Lower the vehicle to the ground
- Tighten the lug nuts to 100 foot-pounds in a crossing or star pattern
- Tighten the lug nut covers
Tools needed
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17mm Socket
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Floor Jack
Ratchet
T25 Torx Driver
15mm Socket
Jack Stands
Torque Wrench
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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the AC belt on this 2005 Volkswagen Jetta. The items you'll need for this is a 15mm and 17mm socket and ratchet, a T25 Torx bit, a flat blade screwdriver, a torque wrench, and jack and jack stands.
Use your pick to remove these caps. For one of these lug nuts, you're going to have to use a key. The key can be found in your trunk with the spare tire. It inserts into that special lug nut, and then removes the same as the other lug nut using a 17mm socket. If you have air powered tools, you can raise your vehicle and then remove the lugs nuts. If you don't, loosen the lug nuts while the vehicles on the ground. Then raise and support the vehicle and remove them the rest of the way. Then your wheel will pull free.
Next, you want to remove this panel. It's held in with a series of T25 screws. There's also a few of them down here. We'll fast-forward as Mike removes those. Now you can pull this panel down. Pull down the front first and then it slides out.
Now, using a 15mm socket and ratchet, put it on the tensioner and pull back and pull the belt off this front pulley. Release the tensioner and pull the belt off this pulley.
Take your new belt and put your ratchet back on the tensioner. Tuck the belt onto that larger pulley, then pull the tensioner back, and put it on to the front pulley. Release the tensioner. Then replace that panel and all of the screws and tighten them up.
Replace your wheel, and you'll realize here that lug nuts are a bit easier than lug bolts. You have to try to hold the wheel in place while you put a lug bolt through. You want to balance it on the hub, and eventually the bolt will line up and push in. Then you want to tighten those preliminarily, and replace and tighten up each of those. Then lower the vehicle and tighten them up the rest of the way. Torque each of these to 100 foot-pounds in a crossing pattern, and replace your lug nut caps.
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