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:
Assembly overview - three-point seat belt, estate, without belt tensioner
1 -
Belt guide
Removing and installing
→ Chapter
2 -
Belt inertia reel
Removing and installing
→ Chapter
3 -
Bolt
If removed due to an accident with seat belt fastened, r ...
Removing and installing lock cylinder
Removing and installing lock cylinder
Special tools and workshop equipment
required
Note
The removal and installation sequence is only for the
left lock ...
Removing and installing decoupler pulley with freewheel
General description
There are different versions of decoupler pulleys with
freewheel.
Before removing the decoupler pulley with freewheel, it must
be determined which special tool must be used.
...
