Thread: Clutch master cylinder

Can only speak for earlier TDI and County models, and no it does not have to be done that way. I have swapped out many.
It is a preference thing. Either:

* Remove in situ by undoing the top cover plate of the box in the engine bay and undoing the adjustment locknuts and the two nuts holding the master. You'll need to slide a ring spanner/vice grips up the inside of the box from the footwell to hold the lower bolt - fiddly.

or

* Remove the sound deadening in the footwell and undo the bolts holding the box

After using the first method for many years, I have gone to the second, as I actually think it is easier

You don't have to remove the pedal box - just that it is easier to do so, especially if you have a vice to hold it in while you replace the master cylinder.

John