I used this video to replace my intake manifold after getting runner position faults. Took much longer than 4 hrs but everything is working correctly and I saved $1000 by doing it myself!

Just bought a 2016 Audi A6 with 105k miles. I do most of my own work and it's videos like this that make me even more confident, thank you Charles for an awesome vide. While the A6 isn't exactly like the VW, it's still a gen 3 and close enough. The A6 had never had the valves cleaned before and you could tell. Luckily the redesigned PCV helped. Only had rough idle on cold start but better to do a quick cleaning before it gets worse. UPDATE: After I got it back together, started right up and took for a test drive. Felt like it still wasn't idling quite right. Went about my day and was cleaning up tools and found the intake manifold slides sitting on my table...DOH! Only took a little over an hour to tear it apart and put the partitions back in and bold everything back up. So easy to work on.

After botching a boost tap install (ECS instructions didn't call for warming up the engine before attempting to make the hole so I wound up popping a dime sized slug into the manifold) I wanted to cry. Tried vacuuming the piece out with a skinny attachment and pantyhose over the tip, no dice. With no other options I went out and bought some silicon spray and a large pick for the boost pipe. I watched this video at least 10 times. Ran through all the steps (minus the fuel rail steps) and was able to remove the piece, reinstall the manifold and finish installing my valved exhaust. Thank you for your amazing videos and meticulous detail. Sometimes I watch videos for cars that I don't even own, lol. You're that good!!!!

Thank you guys for watching. This was a pretty fun DIY. What should we DIY NEXT? :)

I’ll never do this myself but wow! You’re descriptions are super clear and easy to follow. Thanks for sharing 👍👍

I was waiting for 'and now let's pull the engine out - it'll give you a big more wiggle room' 😄

Other vids I’ve seen of this job have left me feeling overwhelmed. Your vid makes it seem doable. Thanks!

Thank you! Hands down best mk7 Intake removal video on KZfaq. All the other videos have you remove the fan or other coolant lines or both for some reason. You way simplified it! I did have to remove the hard metal line to get the intake off. I didn’t even jack up the car. Took about 1.5 to remove so don’t be scared to tackle this guys. At 51k even with water/meth for 10k head had tons of carbon! (Had VMR CC for 6 k but removed it) I sent the car off for walnut media cleaning before it goes back together. Thanks for the video.

Sir - you've done an incredible service to the community in making such a thorough video along with all the helpful links you've provided. I'll be undertaking the install of a euro manifold in coming weeks and I know that this will be an invaluable resource. THANK YOU MAN!

Thanks a ton for this video. I would never have tackled this without your video. The big highlights are the removal of the manifold. It is important to "rotate" the manifold counter clockwise on removal to avoid the cam angle sensor, and the high pressure fuel line. Otherwise you will be trying to get it out to no avail. Also, I did not remove the triple square 10mm for the support bracket. I have a very thick core, stock location intercooler upgrade. It would have been next to impossible to remove and install the bolt. I simply used the removal stud to raise the manifold to get it out, and carefully realigned the manifold on install to allow the coarse threaded stud to mate with the threaded location. Super good video for those looking to install port injection. You gotta get on that, HM! Even the stock ROW setup would be great for keeping those valves clean.

Just used this for my intake cleaning. Amazingly helpful as always! Thanks Charles!

You make this job seem so much easier. My B7 Passat needs this bad, and I was about to pay a shop to do it. Think I'll do it myself.

You are the best teacher in VAG yt tutorials.

I’ve watched this at least ten times slowly working my way to actually try it some day lol

I just went through the suffering of taking my intake manifold out, your video was a great help. Thank you.

Thank you Charles for this, saved me a ton of time.. That lower bracket #10 Triple square bolt to the block is a huge pain in the ass. Took several different combinations of extensions and different bits to get it on and off, easily the hardest part.

Holy crap...I think it used to take me 10 minutes to get the intake manifold off my old E36. This looks like quite the project that I'd like to never have to do...but given how much carbon the Golf R makes...I'm sure it will be one of the first things I have to do when the 72k mile warranty is up. I'm glad this video exists and I'll be able to find it in a few years.

Very similar to the one yourself with DAP 5 years ago. I used that video to replace two intake manifolds on an Audi and a VW. Thanks for your videos.

The amount of money I've saved by doing my own maintenance (thanks to your videos) is un-effing real LOL Love your videos

The amount of plastic parts on this motor is insane.

Thank you for this video. I did carbon cleaning on 2016 Golf R. Your instructions for removal were spot on. I ended up having to remove the hard fuel line, because intake manifold was interfering with it, but did not have remove oil filter housing.

This was a master class video. Thanks.

I just love your work, could watch for hours. Can't wait for the new shop to be done, I know for sure you'll be pumping out videos like crazy.

this simplifies the job immensely. such a big help thank you

Oh yeah, at 40,000 miles, the moment I got the car I put a stage 1 APR tune on the motor, and on the transmission. So, 385 horsepower, 385 lb feet of torque, and 140,000 mi without a hiccup. I always thought Audi's were problematic, I know, I'm mostly dealing with luck, a little bit of good fortune based on the fact that I've never gone 5001 miles without fresh Castrol, and I live in the high desert, dry, dry, dry and never very hot. That being said it's still been a total dream of a car. I just had to mention that. Thanks. Oh last thing, I will never own a vehicle and not have a OBD 11 type device for it ever again. Vagcom would have been even better but it's pricey and I spent $100 on the OBD 11 and a few bucks on a subscription, and it has been an absolute game changer.

Thank you Charles, great instruction. I’m an old school TDI guy, and do all my own work. I just had a P2015 code come up so I might be tackling the intake on my 2016 Tiguan. It’s just outside of Volkswagen’s recall mileage at 125,000.

Thank you for the video. I’m saving it to use when I need to perform this job. And it is likely to be needed someday to avoid those extremely expensive dealership costs. Local Audi dealer is $110 per hour

Europe do have MPI and FSI injectors on the EA888 Gen 3 engines. Have it on my daily (Audi A3 1.8 TFSI Sportback) 140000 km’s on the clock and intake valves are really clean. Just makes me wonder how on earth you guys never got it as well. Worst part, from 2017 they have removed the MPI injectors. Like taking a step back, thank you, VW. Keep ‘em coming, Charles :)

Thank you Charlires I always love watching your videos I am from South Africa

These are the best auto DIY videos on KZfaq.

You saved my life. There is so little out there on this engine, especially gen 3b and even more so as set up in the Atlas. This was SUCH a PITA!!!!!! I thought, fuel injector, okay, no big deal, just a little time. WOW! I will probably never do it again, especially when under a time crunch and trying to learn. I officially hate this engine set up. My 4R takes 2 hours or less for a non-mechanic like me, and about 73 fewer demolished hands and fingers! Thank you so much for this... I'm reposting it in the fuel injector video as well!

Great video as always. Thank you for helping me understand I never want to do this job. 👍🏻

Good job on video! A lot of useful information. Appreciate the time and the video!

One of the first upgrades I did on my scirocco was a hpa high flow aluminium intake manifold no pesky swirl flaps problems and more air win win 👍🏻

Huge thank you for this video! Subaru tech by trade never work on European cars but your video was a huge help doing a walnut blast on my wife's mk7 alltrack 🙏

Great video! Thanks Charles! Very helpful.

Great video, probably the best I’ve seen. Your explanations along the way are excellent. Still feeling a bit intimidated though. I’m afraid of missing something or damaging/breaking something. Fear is such a vicious thing, wraps me up in chains ;0. My local dealer does not do media blasting only chemical cleaning. Keep doing what you do Charles.

Hello Charles, love your vids - from the land down under

Good job Charles, very detailed, hope ye had a nice Easter:):)

Charles, thank you so much for this video.

Amazing tutorial. THX Charles!

Wow makes me glad I have a 1.8t 20v engine so much simpler. Good video as always.

I do love the similarities between the VAG group engines

I love intake manifold jobs on our cars. So easy!

Just what I need. Thanks Charles 😎👍

This makes it easier lol, I followed Elsa and now I noticed I took too long, but I’m glad I did it the “right” way first so now I can look for shortcuts 👍🏽

Makes me wish I had a 2.0t just so I could take the intake manifold off! As always great vid. Soon they'll be coming from the Dream Shop!

Great how to, thanks!

Just did a carbon clean and this video helped me in various ways . One big one was that stupid electric connector bracket and how the connectors clip on. Good luck finding that on Google. Thanks Humble!

Extremely helpful video, thank you.

Got it done this past saturday! Thank you!

awesome video!

Thanks Charles, this helped a lot. The one thing I was able to do was just loosen the triple square and 13MM on the bracket then spin the rubber piece out of the manifold once the manifold bolts are removed.

Very informative! I have a 2015 GTI hopefully the procedure will be similar other videos I watched guys take way more stuff out i.e. radiator etc...

Just did this yesterday on my ‘15 A3, thanks so much for the great video! Just a note, not sure if this just applies to Audi’s or older models, but on mine the top right and top left manifold bolts were actually studs with nuts on them, meaning that the fuel hard pipe and oil filter were necessities to be removed.

Good video and perfect explication of how DIY with the things we have to take care of.

You said a couple of hours. Taking this thing off and doing the injectors took me 5 hours. But your videos helped so much. But I did do a couple of things differently to make hints easier.

I have to mention that this motor, while it may get hate for some things, I bought my 2016 S3 with 40,000 miles on it in 2020 October. I've driven the hell out of it road drove Uber drove lyft drove door dash, put 100,000 miles on it in a couple of years It currently has 181,000 mi on it, I did every bit of maintenance, and I am not even close to certified. It's been solid as a rock. That is to say, it's run like a top until just recently when I had to get the water pump replaced, and at the same time did the carbon clean out, which I believe caused me to immediately have misfires upon retrieving it from the shop and overpaying for the water pump replacement. Now I have to do fuel injectors and an alternator, but for $140,000 mi on a 2016 S3 to only have these few issues now, it's been amazing. Plastic parts are not, it's a good engine, well at least I got a good one anyway. Best car I've ever owned and also the car that was the turning point in my never ever taking a car to a mechanic again. You're a big part of that humble mechanic, I can't recall your name right now Thank you very much for your help and for this video you're a lifesaver, a money saver in fact, big one.

Hi Charles - love your video and feel sad for all VW fans including me about OVER-USING plastic all over the engine bay!

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Great video. Answered a few questions I had about the removal. Have you done any research in the flap delete mod? Is it worth looking into while you're already there?

Thanks nice video, like always...

Off topic, but I’m glad to see that VW put a much larger washer fluid reservoir in the newer MK7’s. It’s stupidly small in my 2015.

Nice job. Why the steel fuel lines are now replaced by this reinforced hose? You could consider acquiring a wire camera and connected to an android phone record the tight spots beside and under the engine so you can show them in a corner of the screen. I bought mine and the camera has also some LEDs around so it makes also some light. Pretty cool to see in the invisible spots

To anyone attempting this.. as I currently am. Thay #10 bottom tripple bolt is a huge pain in the ass. 20 min total. And i went with 2 extentions and a joint swivel to thread it the rest of the way. Pretty long bolt and tight space. I hate how he makes everything look so easy😂

Dual port injection upgrade please. Carbon buildups only happen in America, the rest of the world has DPI and they have no issues; therefore, DPI is clearly needed for this design. Afterwards, dyno :) Hope this gets fixed on the USA version Mk 8. This has been ongoing for 11yrs now (so I have heard). Great video. Love to watch.

Never saw you remove the fuel line at the fuel rail. I saw you do it at the pump but whatever. Thank you for the info you did provide

The golf clap soundtrack made me laugh. 😂

Looking at that engine bay reminds me of how easy my mk4 1.8t awp was to work on and actually had a good amount of room to move around.

Gut erklärt 😎👍

I find it worth have couple different spanner of same size in tool box. Some time a different make spanner has slightly different angle to it wiche is enough get more movement on nut or bolt

Could you please also do a thermostat/water pump replacement job when your Golf R needs it

Your videos are next level good. You probably will save so many mechanics and DIY's from extra stress by taking the time to make this video. Would you say this is 2 hours labor for an experienced euro workshop ?

@HumbleMechanic this video was perfect and what I used to remove the manifold for my MPI install. Thanks for the content! 🙏🏼

Awesome video! However, this doesn’t work for the MK7 GTIs😓 why did VW use two studs on the top outer manifold bolts?!?! Lower part of manifold could not make it past lower fuel line fitting so I had to take a ton of other stuff off to get that loose😩. At least this got me through 95% of removal. Keep up the great work!

Please please do a video on upgraded fueling. That would be so cool.

Thank you very useful for me this vedio also perfect.....

Great video. I will be doing this in the next week or so. Do you re-use the inlet manifold gasket?

Good job

Thank you so much for this walk through. I’ve got an issue with my Golf R and need to look at my Injectors. been quoted stupid money from various garages for them just to take A look at the injectors etc. fingers crossed 🤞

Hi Charles, fantastic video mate. Question for you though, is there a way to replace Bank A cam position sensor without having to remove the intake manifold?? I have one that I suspect is acting up as is throwing intermittent CEL.

Great vid Charles!👍 Did you disconnect the battery before removing the intake manifold? Is it necessary to recalibrate the throttle body? Mine is the twin port injection version here in Spain. Thanks body!!

awesome stuff , good content, keep it up👍👍😀 , Charles im worried about my 2015 s3, this could bad, also dose the oil catch can not help with this?

I used this video to help remove the intake manifold on my 2016 GTI. I did notice a couple differences. There are a couple more connectors on my GTI that needed to be unplugged. The metal fuel line also had to be removed otherwise the intake would catch on it and wouldn't come out. Also, the two outer intake manifold bolts are actually studs with a 10mm nut on it. I found It more challenging to remove since it has to be pulled towards the front first then turned like the video. I think this is also why the metal fuel line needs to come out. Otherwise, everything was exactly the same and helped me remove the intake manifold. The most challenging part is removing the lower intake manifold support bolt. There is no room to fit my hands in there to get the triple square on the bolt. Also had to use a swivel socket.

Hey! Great video! So supposedly the factory boost pipes neck down to 1.25 inches at some point in the charge pipe area. Could you do a before and after comparison with a boost pipe kit replacement such as the EQT MQB 2.5" DISCHARGE PIPE + TURBO MUFFLER DELETE kit? Thanks!!

Dude thank you so much for making this video! You da man! What would you rather do? Turbo replace or this? Thanks again and stay safe!

If I'm doing this job that triple square is getting dropped when I try to remove it with a magnet followed by the wait to hear it hit the ground.

Hey i have a quick question. I just bought some liquid molly jectron and valve cleaner. Can i add both of these to my gas tank at the same time then fill up? or should i do them seperate?

Would it be a good idea to go ahead and replace the intake manifold gasket, and throttle body gasket? Since the intake manifold is already off.

this demonstration is the easiest way ive come across to un bolt the manifold.. just gave me a bit of confidence.

Ah man this DIY is awesome! I wish you could make one for the Audi 3.0t Supercharged engines. :(

Love your vids Charles, when is the HumbleMechanic Q&A coming back? I loved so much that serietà. Also I have question to submit for the Q&A 😜

Challenge accepted ! They quoted me 450 to do this ! Nope I’ll be doing this myself !

So do you think the carbon buildup on your valves from the other video was contributed by the stage two upgrade?

Hi Charles! First of all thank you for all the informative and quality content, this is gold in its category, it helped me a lot! Secondly: I have a question for you, since I have a weird issue and I don't really find any useful information about the problem and I don't have anybody to ask who I'd trust except you. So the thing is: I have a friend who has a Skoda Superb III (2018), it has a 2.0 tfsi engine (200kW/272hp/DNUA), and it has a quite concerning fuel leak on the high pressure fuel line that we discovered using endoscope camera placed under the intake manifold. Because of this problem the car turned the check engine light on, so I connected the car to VCDS and there was a P119A (fuel pressure sensor g247 malfunction) fault code stored with fault frequency: 3, nothing else. So we though the sensor sent wrong value to the ECU (probably low pressure values), the ECU increased the pressure and caused the injector seal to fail. It was logical to replace the G247 sensor, so I've followed your guide to remove the intake manifold, then replaced the G247 sensor, removed the fuel rail to check the injector o-rings (they looked OK) and reseated the fuel rail hoping if the seal moved it will seal again (I wanted to replace the seals, but for some reason none of the shops had them on stock, and couldn't order them either, weird...). So after reseating the fuel rail, replacing the high fuel line pressure sensor I've reassembled the intake side, cleared the fault codes, started the engine. It worked, but it was still leaking, so we decided not to torture it anymore until our new injector seals arrive ordered from abroad. My question is: Reading the live data from the g247 sensor in VCDS showed 200 bar fuel pressure (both actual and requested) on idling revs, which is kind of odd. Is this just a VCDS/protocol bug? I'm pretty sure at idling it should be around 50 bars (my audi 8p 2.0 tfsi has 50 bars at idle, 70 bars at 2000rpm, 80 bars at 3000rpm). When I pressed the gas pedal and increased the rpm to around 2000 it suddenly dropped from 200 bars to like 100 bars (both actual and requested), which I still think is too high, especially with leaking rail. Next time when we do a teardown to replace the seals, should I replace the injector fuel rail? I'm worried the socket the injectors connect to is deformed for some reason and we don't want to disassemble the high pressure line too many times, the fittings won't like that. Is this a somewhat common issue? Changing only the injector seals would be enough, or should we go for the rail too? We can get it for reasonable price brand new (like 50 eurs). My idea is fuel leak is not a fun thing, and a new rail with new seals should do the trick probably for life. Am I on right track or do you have anything to add? I've found a rail with 06K133317H part number for sale, but I'm not sure if it is compatible with the engine. (Btw it looks exactly like the one in this video, the two mounting screws going through the rail) I don't find any database that could help me figure out the compatibility. Can you please tell me by any chance if it is compatible, so we can order it? We didn't check the part number when it was disassembled (I didn't think it should be replaced) and I wouldn't remove the manifold just to check the number, because the car can not stay disassembled in the garage. Thank you for your answer!

I am following your video coz it really helps us save money, but when i attempted to remove the air cleaner box to have ample space to work on I was stopped on my track because there are two plastic bolts at the bottom that holds firmly the box. Hence, this inquiry if I need special tool to unscrew or remove it or if you can share your idea. my car is Tiguan 2018 which is different from the car you demonstrated. hope to hear you soon

Can you please do a video on how to replace the Valve cover sealant on an 2010 A4 Quattro TFSI

Awesome love the vid I'm doing a 2020 vw gti 2.0 t I'm replacing the intake mine is broken had an accident when removing t body do I need a new gasket between the troattle body and intake also anything I have to remove from old intake to new intake where the runners go I belive the flaps ??? From old intake to the new one

Replacing #2 injector due to hide cylinder code and #2 cylinder misfires. Carbon clean aswell (35k miles 2016 GTI). This video will definitely help me out!

Multi port nitrous provision cool.