2006 Jetta TDI Fuel Filter Cartridge Replacement

Anybody out there know of a video (and/or instructions) available to aid me in replacing the cartridge in my 2006 Jetta TDI Fuel Filter running B100??

Thanks!

First welcome to the club

Second, just a word of advice.... be sure to use the search function before posting up a question that has already had the potential of being asked 1000's of times before.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=133579

To answer your question..
Fuel filter directions with pics if you have the early 05.5-06 "434A" style, also known as the Olympic type filter.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=1699260&postcount=8

Fuel filter directions with pics if you have the later 06 MY "434B" style.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=1801230&postcount=47

Welcome also! You also need to know there are other forums here as well. Yours would be the A5 forum. Lots of good info there on your car. Read the DIY sticky right at the top for alot of the stuff needed for your car.

Forum
http://forums.tdiclub.com/forumdisplay.php?f=68

DIY
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=229753

This is easy.

Locate the filter. It's on the passenger side. Has 6 T26 screws holding it in with a lip for a flat head screw driver. Unscrew the bolts (some say disconnect the lines but I've never had to do this on mine), use the screw driver to pry the lid off the canister.

Remove old filter, pour diesel fuel into housing. Remove the old O-ring at the top of the housing plate -- BE SURE that the new one is pre-lubed (drop it in the diesel) and that you have ensured it is on correctly. If not diesel will spray everywhere. That has happened to me before. Push the new cartridge onto the stalk on the housing plate, and put it back together.

It takes about 10 minutes.

Da~da~da said:

First welcome to the club

Second, just a word of advice.... be sure to use the search function before posting up a question that has already had the potential of being asked 1000's of times before.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=133579

To answer your question..
Fuel filter directions with pics if you have the early 05.5-06 "434A" style, also known as the Olympic type filter.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=1699260&postcount=8

Fuel filter directions with pics if you have the later 06 MY "434B" style.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=1801230&postcount=47

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generally, search is cool. I depend on it daily.
But I had already tried several times and could not find the fuel filter cartridge replacement info I needed anywhere on the tdiclub site. So I posted.

So that I may learn, what search terms would you have recommended for this query??

Thanks!

A several second search using the following in the A5 forums produced these

fuel filter
http://forums.tdiclub.com/search.php?searchid=3267374

change fuel filter
http://forums.tdiclub.com/search.php?searchid=3267380

MKV fuel filter change
http://forums.tdiclub.com/search.php?searchid=3267384

how could I have possibly known to search in "A5"?

Reading the forum headers it says this:

A5 Golf/Jettas (73 Viewing)
Discussions area for A5/MkV Jetta/Golf (2005/2006 and 2009 CR).

Limiting your search to the area that concerns your model year will produce results for only that.