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. |
|
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. |
|
|
|
| – |
Check to ensure that contact surfaces
-arrows- on brake disc are free of corrosion and dirt. |
|
|
|
| – |
Check to ensure that contact surface
-arrow- on centring seat of brake disc are free of
corrosion and dirt. |
|
|
|
| – |
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. |
| – |
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. |
|
|
|
| – |
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. |
|
|
|
|
Warming cold tyres to minimum installation temperature
Note
This instruction also applies to ultra-high performance
tyres (h ...
–
Preserving wheel centring seat
→ Chapter.
1 -
When fitting the wheel, pull in all wheel bolts uniformly by ...
Other materials:
Fixing position of subframe, multi-link suspension, front-wheel drive, Golf
GTE
Special tools and workshop equipment
required
Locating pins -T10096-
Engine and gearbox jack -VAS 6931-
I ...
Wheel cover
Fig. 220 Removing the wheel covers
First read and observe the introductory information
and safety warningsRemoving the wheel covers
Take the box spanner and wire hook from the vehicle toolkit.
Insert the wire hook into one of the holes in the wheel cover.
Push the box spanner thr ...
Tack cloth -VAS 6177
Designation:
Tack cloth -VAS 6177-
Product description:
Tack cloth with extremely effective soft tack properties for
critical cleaning tasks. Unlike other tack cloths, this cloth
does not lea ...
© 2016-2024 Copyright www.vwgolf.org
Wheel change, installation requirements
Wheel change, wheel installation