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Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Battery

(VRL007981; Edition 04.2015)
  WARNING
Danger of injury! Observe warning notices and safety regulations → Chapter!
  Caution
To prevent damage to the battery and vehicle the information on types of battery must be observed → Chapter.
   
Fundamentals for batteries
To ensure long use of the battery, the battery must be checked, serviced and maintained according to the specifications in this manual.
Apart from supplying energy for starting the engine, the battery has other tasks: it acts as a buffer and supplies electrical energy to the complete electrical onboard supply of the vehicle.
Types of batteries
General notes
  Caution
The description for the following batteries is for maintenance-free batteries. No stickers may be removed and do not replenish with distilled water. Only perform a visual check. Refer to chapter, Checking battery → Chapter.
   
Starter- current supply- CC
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Battery with »standard« colour indicator
This is a maintenance-free battery with liquid electrolyte (wet battery).   WARNING It is not permissib ...

Other materials:

Specified values for wheel alignment, multi-link suspension, Golf
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EU general type approval number, sales type and sales or trade designation
The designations below are only applicable for VW vehicles Since 1.1.1998, all passenger cars licensed within the European Union must have a type approval corresponding to EU guidelines. Vehicles licensed for road use with single-vehicle approval according to § 21 St ...

Recommended summer tyres
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