Volkswagen Golf Service & Repair Manual: Wheels and Tyres Guide - General Information
- Specifications for converting wheel and tyre combinations, documents
- Legislative conditions
- Technical conditions
- Vehicle registration documents since 01-10-2005
- COC document (EEC Certificate of Conformity)
- EU general type approval number, sales type and sales or trade designation
- Handling problems
- Evaluating tyres
- Flat spots caused by storage or handling
- Undulations
- Flat spots caused by hard braking
- Swellings in the tyre sidewall
- Damage caused by foreign bodies
- Stripped profile
- Tyre damage due to insufficient tyre pressure
- Checking tyres
- Damage caused when fitting
- Tyre wear
- Factors influencing the service life of tyres
- Saw-tooth wear
- Measuring tread depth
- One-sided wear
- Outer shoulder wear
- Diagonal washout
- Wear in middle of tyre
- Permissible deviation in tread depth
- Overview of components
- Fitting tyre
- Pressing tyre off wheel rim
- Removing tyre sealant
- Removing tyre from wheel
- Ensuring proper assembly temperature for tyres
- Mounting tyre
- Matching wheel rims and tyres
- Balancing wheel
- Fitting wheels
- Fitting wheel, fitting instructions for Volkswagen
- Fitting wheel, fitting instructions for Audi
- Fitting wheel, position of anti-theft wheel bolts for steel wheels
- Information on tyres
- Identification markings on the tyre sidewall
- EU tyre label
- Structure of a radial belted tyre
- Run-flat tyre, SST (Self Supporting Tyre)
- Run-flat tyres, PAX
- Information on wheel rims
- Tyre pressure sensor
- Tyre sealant
- Wheel bolts
- Snow chains
- Temporary spare wheels
Tachograph
In many European countries there is an obligation to install
and use a tachograph on vehicles (including passenger vehicles)
that serve purely for commercial purposes ...
Other materials:
Removing and installing brake system pressure accumulator -VX70-, RHD
vehicles
Special tools and workshop equipment
required
Torque wrench -V.A.G 1331-
Torque wrench -V.A.G 1410-
...
2-pack HS wet-on-wet surfacer
Designation:
2-pack HS wet-on-wet surfacer -LVM 013 008 A4-, light grey
2-pack HS wet-on-wet surfacer -LVM 013 905 A4-, black
Issue 03.2015
Product description
...
Removing and installing mirror cover
Note
Removal and installation are described only for the left mirror
cover. The right side is similar.
Removing
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Remove mirror glass
→ Chapter.
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Release locking hook ...
