Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change
WARNING
| Perform the checks and follow the instructions
listed below. This is important to ensure that the wheel
bolts and the wheels are properly secured. |
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Note
| On vehicles with tyre pressure indicator, the tyre pressure
indicator has to be recalibrated any time one or more wheels are
removed or fitted
→ Anchor. |
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Check to ensure that contact surfaces
-arrows- on brake disc are free of corrosion and dirt. |
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Check to ensure that contact surface
-arrow- on centring seat of brake disc are free of
corrosion and dirt. |
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Check to ensure that contact surface
-arrow- on inner side of wheel (rim) and also centring
seat of rim are free of corrosion and dirt. |
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The concave seats * in the holes
for the wheel bolts and the threads of the wheel bolts must also
be free of corrosion and dirt, oil or grease. |
| * The concave seat is the curved
surface of a section of a sphere cut by a plane. |
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Check whether the wheel bolts can be easily screwed in by
hand. The thread of the wheel bolts must not come into contact
with the bore in the brake disc -arrow-. |
| If the thread of the wheel bolt touches the hole
-arrow-, turn the brake disc
relative to the wheel hub accordingly. |
| If necessary, remove dirt and corrosion: |
| Oil or grease from contact surfaces |
| Oil or grease from threads in wheel hub |
| Oil or grease from threads in wheel bolts |
WARNING
| Damaged, badly corroded or difficult to remove wheel
bolts must be renewed. |
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Warming cold tyres to minimum installation temperature
Note
This instruction also applies to ultra-high performance
tyres (h ...
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Preserving wheel centring seat
→ Chapter.
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When fitting the wheel, pull in all wheel bolts uniformly by ...
Other materials:
Removing broken front side window
Removal of a broken front side window is performed in the
same manner as the removal of a broken rear window
→ Chapter.
Removing and installing rear side window
Note
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Repairs to CAN bus wiring
An unshielded two-wire line -1-
and -2- with a cross section of
0.35 mm2 or 0.5 mm2
is used for CAN bus wiring.
The colour codes of the CAN bus wiring can be gleaned from
the following table:
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Recommended all-season tyres
Recommended all-season tyres, worldwide except North America and China
Notes regarding the recommended tyres
→
→ Chapter „Explanations regarding world regions“
Tyre size
Make
Tread pattern
Remarks
195/65&nbs ...
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Wheel change, installation requirements
Wheel change, wheel installation