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Service
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List of Workshop Manual Repair GroupsList of Workshop Manual
Repair GroupsList of Workshop Manual Repair Groups
Repair Group
44 - Wheels, tyres, vehicle geometry
Technical information should always be available to the foremen and mechanics, because their
careful and constant adherence to the instructions is essential to ensure vehicle road-worthiness and
safety. In addition, the normal basic safety precautions for working on motor vehicles must, as a
matter of course, be observed.
Service
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Contents
44 - Wheels, tyres, vehicle geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 General notes on wheels and tyres (passenger cars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2 Legislative and technical conditions for converting wheel and tyre combinations . . . . . . . . 3
2.1 Legislative conditions for converting wheel and tyre combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2 Technical conditions for converting wheel and tyre combinations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3 Additional wheel housing extensions (flaps) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.4 „Series 80“ tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Documents and codes/designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1 New vehicle registration documents since 01.10.2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2 COC document (EEC Certificate of Conformity) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3 EU general type approval number, sales type and sales or trade designation . . . . . . . . . . 6
4 Useful information regarding tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1 Identification markings on the tyre sidewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2 Explanation of tyre markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3 Speed ratings for tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4 Undulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.5 Tyre storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.6 Tyre ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.7 Tyre sizes for vehicles with four-wheel drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.8 Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.9 Winter tyres with speed symbol „V“ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.10 Extra Load (XL) V winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.11 Maximum speeds for V and Extra Load (XL) winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.12 Reinforced and Extra Load (XL) tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.13 Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5 Tyre wear/ mileage for passenger car tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2 Requirements to be met by tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.3 Wear behaviour of high-speed tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.4 Factors influencing the service life of a tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.5 Driving style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.6 Tyre maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.7 Evenly worn tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.8 Measuring tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.9 One-sided wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.10 Outer shoulder wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.11 Wear in middle of tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.12 Diagonal washout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6 Tyre noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1 General notes on tyre noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.2 Saw-tooth wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.3 Flat spots (from locking wheels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
7 Vehicle pulls to one side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.2 Conicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
7.3 Remedies when vehicle pulls to one side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.4 Strategic rotation of wheels for non-directional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
7.5 Strategic rotation of wheels having unidirectional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
8 Tyre damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.1 General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
8.2 Construction of a radial belted tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
8.3 Impact damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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8.4 Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
8.5 Damage caused by foreign bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
8.6 Loss of air from tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
8.7 Tyre pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
8.8 Tyre damage due to insufficient tyre pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
8.9 Rising tyre temperature caused by insufficient inflation pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.10 Tyre damage due to fitting error (fitting damage) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
9 Tyres with run-flat properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9.2 Design and identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
9.3 Retrofitting/requirements when using run-flat tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
9.4 Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
10 Rolling resistance optimised tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
11 Facts about disc-type wheels (passenger cars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
11.1 Design of disc-type wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
11.2 Data on wheel rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
11.3 Wheel rims - pitch circle diameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
11.4 Split rim composite wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
11.5 Alloy wheels with exchangeable trim elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
11.6 Alloy wheels with exchangeable trim elements (Zaragoza) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
11.7 Care and maintenance of alloy wheel rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
11.8 Restoring alloy wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
11.9 The valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
12 Notes on use of temporary spare wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
13 Fox from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
13.1 Fox, type 5Z model year 2006 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
13.2 Wheel allocation for Fox, type 5Z model year 2006 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
14 up! from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
14.1 Advance information about up! Model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
15 Polo from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
15.1 Polo, type 6R model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
15.2 Wheel allocation for Polo, type 6R model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
16 Polo BlueMotion from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
16.1 Polo BlueMotion, type 6R model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
16.2 Wheel allocation for Polo BlueMotion, type 6R model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . 74
17 CrossPolo from model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
17.1 CrossPolo, type 6R model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
17.2 Wheel allocation CrossPolo, type 6R model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
18 Polo GTI from model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
18.1 Polo GTI, type 6R model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
18.2 Wheel allocation Polo GTI, type 6R model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
19 Golf from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
19.1 Golf, Golf 4Motion, sales type 5K model year 2009 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
19.2 Wheel allocation for Golf, Golf 4Motion, sales type 5K model year 2009 to model year
2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
20 Golf BlueMotion from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
20.1 Golf BlueMotion, sales type 5K model year 2009 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
20.2 Wheel allocation for Golf BlueMotion, sales type 5K model year 2009 to model year 2012
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
21 Golf GTD from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
21.1 Golf GTD, sales type 5K, model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
21.2 Wheel allocation for Golf GTD, type 5K model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 122
22 Golf GTI from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
22.1 Golf GTI, sales type 5K, model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
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22.2 Wheel allocation for Golf GTI, type 5K model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 139
23 Golf R from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
23.1 Golf R, sales type 5K model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
23.2 Golf R, sales type 5K model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
23.3 Wheel allocation for Golf R, type 5K model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
24 CrossGolf from model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
24.1 CrossGolf, sales type 521 model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
24.2 Wheel allocation CrossGolf, sales type 521 model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . 168
25 Golf Cabriolet from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
25.1 Golf Cabriolet, sales type 517 from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
25.2 Wheel allocation Golf Cabriolet, sales type 517 from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
26 Golf Plus from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
26.1 Golf Plus, sales type 521 model year 2009 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
26.2 Golf Plus, sales type 521 model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
26.3 Wheel allocation for Golf Plus, sales type 521 model year 2009 to model year 2012 . . . . 211
27 Golf Plus BlueMotion from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
27.1 Golf Plus BlueMotion, sales type 521, model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . 228
27.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Plus BlueMotion, sales type 521, model year 2010 to model year
2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
28 Golf Variant from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
28.1 Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion, sales type AJ5 model year 2010 to model year 2012
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
28.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion, sales type AJ5 model year 2010 to
model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
29 Golf Variant BlueMotion from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
29.1 Golf Variant BlueMotion, sales type AJ5, model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . 263
29.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Variant BlueMotion, sales type AJ5, model year 2010 to model year
2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
30 Jetta from model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
30.1 Jetta, sales type 162 model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
30.2 Wheel allocation Jetta, sales type 162 model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
31 Jetta from model year 2011 (NAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
31.1 Jetta, sales type 162 from model year 2011 (NAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
31.2 Wheel allocation for Jetta, sales type 162 from model year 2011 (NAR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
32 Beetle from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
32.1 Beetle, sales type 5C1, from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
32.2 Beetle, sales type 5C1, from model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
33 Scirocco from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
33.1 Scirocco, sales type 137, model year 2009 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
33.2 Scirocco, sales type 137 model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
33.3 Wheel allocation for Scirocco, sales type 137 model year 2009 to model year 2012 . . . . 322
34 Scirocco R from model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
34.1 Scirocco R, sales type 137, model year 2010 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
34.2 Scirocco R, sales type 137 model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
34.3 Wheel allocation for Scirocco R, sales type 137, model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . 330
35 Touran from model year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
35.1 Touran, type 1T model year 2003 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
35.2 Touran, type 1T model year 2007 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
35.3 Touran, type 1T and type 1t model year 2011 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
35.4 Wheel allocation Touran, type 1T and type 1t model year 2003 to model year 2012 . . . . 349
36 CrossTouran from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
36.1 CrossTouran, type 1T model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
36.2 CrossTouran, type 1T and type 1t model year 2010 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
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