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Service Department. Technical Information
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List 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.
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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
2.5 Vehicles with Plus running gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3 Documents and codes/designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1 New vehicle registration documents since 01.10.2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.2 COC document (EEC Certificate of Conformity) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3 Official type designations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.4 EU general type approval number, sales type and sales or trade designation . . . . . . . . . . 8
4 Useful information regarding tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1 Identification markings on the tyre sidewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2 Explanation of tyre markings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3 Speed ratings for tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.4 Undulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.5 Tyre storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.6 Tyre ageing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.7 Winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.8 Winter tyres with speed symbol “V” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.9 Extra Load (XL) V winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.10 Maximum speeds for V and Extra Load (XL) winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4.11 Reinforced and Extra Load (XL) tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.12 Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
5 Tyre wear/ mileage for passenger car tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.2 Requirements to be met by tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5.3 Wear behaviour of high-speed tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.4 Factors influencing the service life of a tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.5 Driving style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.6 Tyre maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.7 Evenly worn tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.8 Measuring tread depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.9 One-sided wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.10 Outer shoulder wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.11 Wear in middle of tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.12 Diagonal washout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6 Tyre noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.1 General notes on tyre noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.2 Saw-tooth wear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.3 Flat spots (from locking wheels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
7 Rough running caused by wheels/tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.1 Causes of rough running . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.2 Balancing wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.3 Conducting a road test before balancing wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
7.4 Balancing wheels on stationary wheel balancing machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
7.5 Vibration control system VAS 6230 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
7.6 Finish balancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
7.7 Radial and lateral runout of wheels and tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
7.8 Checking radial and lateral runout on wheels and tyres with tyre gauge V.A.G 1435 . . . . 37
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7.9 Checking radial and lateral runout on wheel rim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
7.10 Matching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
7.11 Flat spots caused by storage or handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
8 Vehicle pulls to one side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.2 Conicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
8.3 Remedies when vehicle pulls to one side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
8.4 Strategic rotation of wheels for non-directional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
8.5 Strategic rotation of wheels having unidirectional tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
9 Tyre damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
9.1 General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
9.2 Construction of a radial belted tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
9.3 Impact damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
9.4 Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
9.5 Damage caused by foreign bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
9.6 Loss of air from tyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
9.7 Tyre pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
9.8 Tyre damage due to insufficient tyre pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
9.9 Rising tyre temperature caused by insufficient inflation pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
9.10 Tyre damage due to fitting error (fitting damage) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
10 Tyres with run-flat properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
10.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
10.2 Design and identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
10.3 Retrofitting/requirements when using run-flat tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
10.4 Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
11 Rolling resistance optimised tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
12 Facts about disc-type wheels (passenger cars) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
12.1 Design of disc-type wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
12.2 Data on wheel rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
12.3 Wheel rims - pitch circle diameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
12.4 Split rim composite wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
12.5 Alloy wheels with exchangeable trim elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
12.6 Alloy wheels with exchangeable trim elements (Zaragoza) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
12.7 Hub cover for alloy wheels with open threaded connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
12.8 Care and maintenance of alloy wheel rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
12.9 Restoring alloy wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
12.10 The valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
13 Fitting and removing wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
13.1 Rotating wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
13.2 Instructions for changing or fitting wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
13.3 Revised wheel bolts for Sharan from model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
13.4 Notes on use of temporary spare wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
14 Lupo 3L, Lupo FSI, Lupo GTI from model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
14.1 Lupo 3L, type 6E model year 1999 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
14.2 Wheel allocation for Lupo 3L, type 6E model year 1999 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . 73
14.3 Lupo FSI, type 6E model year 2001 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
14.4 Wheel allocation for Lupo FSI, type 6E model year 2001 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . 75
14.5 Lupo GTI, type 6ES model year 2001 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
14.6 Wheel allocation for Lupo GTI, type 6ES model year 2001 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . 78
15 Lupo model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
15.1 Lupo, type 6X model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
15.2 Wheel allocation for Lupo, type 6X model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
16 Fox from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
16.1 Fox, type 5Z model year 2005 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
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16.2 Wheel allocation for Fox, type 5Z model year 2005 to model year 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
17 Polo model year 1995 to model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
17.1 Polo, type 6N up to and including 07.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
17.2 Wheel allocation for Polo, type 6N up to and including 07.95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
17.3 Polo, type 6N from 08.95 up to and including model year 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
17.4 Polo, type 6N from model year 1997 to model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
17.5 Wheel allocation for Polo, type 6N from 08.95 to model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
17.6 Polo, type 6N from model year 2000 to model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
17.7 Wheel allocation for Polo, type 6N from model year 2000 to model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . 106
18 Polo Classic model year 1996 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
18.1 Polo Classic, type 6KV model year 1996 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
18.2 Wheel allocation for Polo Classic, type 6KV model year 1996 to model year 2002 . . . . . . 114
19 Polo Variant model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
19.1 Polo Variant type 6KV model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
19.2 Wheel allocation for Polo Variant type 6KV model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . 120
20 Polo from model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
20.1 Polo, type 9N model year 2002 to model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
20.2 Polo, type 9N model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
20.3 Wheel allocation for Polo, type 9N model year 2002 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
21 Polo Fun model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
21.1 Polo Fun, type 9N model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
21.2 Wheel allocation for Polo Fun, type 9N model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . 140
22 CrossPolo from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
22.1 CrossPolo, type 9N model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
22.2 Wheel allocation for CrossPolo, type 9N model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . 143
23 Polo BlueMotion from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
23.1 Polo BlueMotion, type 9N model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
23.2 Wheel allocation for Polo BlueMotion, type 9N model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . 146
24 Polo GTI from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
24.1 Polo GTI, type 9N model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
24.2 Wheel allocation for Polo GTI, type 9N model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . 149
25 Polo GTI Cup Edition from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
25.1 Polo GTI Cup Edition, type 9N model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
25.2 Wheel allocation for Polo GTI Cup Edition, type 9N model year 2007 to model year 2009
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26 Polo saloon/sedan model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
26.1 Polo saloon/sedan, type 9N model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
26.2 Wheel allocation for Polo saloon/sedan, type 9N model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . 161
27 Golf model year 1992 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
27.1 Golf type 1HX0, Golf Syncro 1HX1, Golf type 1H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
27.2 Wheel allocation for Golf type 1HX0, Golf Syncro 1HX1, Golf type 1H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
28 Golf model year 1998 to model year 2004, Golf R32, Golf Anniversary GTI . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
28.1 Golf, Golf 4Motion, type 1J model year 1998 to model year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
28.2 Wheel allocation for Golf, Golf 4Motion, type 1J model year 1998 to model year 2004 . . . . 183
28.3 Conditions for fitting 17" wheels and tyres to Golf model year 1998 to model year 2004 . . 195
28.4 Golf R32, type 1J model year 2003 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
28.5 Wheel allocation for Golf R32, type 1J model year 2003 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . 196
28.6 Golf Anniversary GTI, type 1J model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
28.7 Wheel allocation for Golf Anniversary GTI, type 1J model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
28.8 Conditions for fitting 17" and 18" wheels and tyres of Golf Anniversary GTI . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
29 Golf model year 2004 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
29.1 Golf, Golf 4Motion, type 1K model year 2004 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
29.2 Golf, Golf 4Motion, type 1K model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
29.3 Wheel allocation for Golf, Golf 4Motion, type 1K model year 2004 to model year 2009 . . 211
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30 Golf BlueMotion model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
30.1 Golf BlueMotion, type 1K model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
30.2 Wheel allocation for Golf BlueMotion, type 1K model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . 225
31 Golf GTI model year 2005 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
31.1 Golf GTI, type 1K model year 2005 to model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
31.2 Golf GTI, type 1K model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
31.3 Wheel allocation for Golf GTI, type 1K model year 2005 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . 235
32 Pirelli Golf model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
32.1 Pirelli Golf, type 1K model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
32.2 Wheel allocation for Pirelli Golf, type 1K model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . 247
33 Golf R32 model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
33.1 Golf R32, type 1K model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
33.2 Wheel allocation for Golf R32, type 1K model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . 260
34 CrossGolf from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
34.1 CrossGolf, type 1KP model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
34.2 Wheel allocation for CrossGolf, type 1KP model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . 269
35 Golf Plus from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
35.1 Golf Plus, type 1KP model year 2005 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
35.2 Golf Plus, type 1KP model year 2007 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
35.3 Wheel allocation for Golf Plus, type 1KP model year 2005 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . 285
36 Golf Plus BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
36.1 Golf Plus BlueMotion, type 1KP model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
36.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Plus BlueMotion, type 1KP model year 2008 to model year 2009
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37 Golf Variant model year 1994 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
37.1 Golf Variant type 1HX0, Golf Variant Syncro type 1HX1, Golf Variant type 1H . . . . . . . . . . 306
37.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Variant type 1HX0, Golf Variant Syncro type 1HX1, Golf Variant
type 1H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
38 Golf Variant model year 1999 to model year 2006, Bora Variant model year 1999 to model
year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
38.1 Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion, Bora Variant, Bora Variant 4Motion, type 1J . . . . . . . . 317
38.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion, Bora Variant, Bora Variant 4Motion,
type 1J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
38.3 Conditions for fitting 17" wheels and tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
39 Golf Variant model year 2007 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
39.1 Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion; type 1KM model year 2007 to model year 2008 . . . . . . 332
39.2 Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion; type 1KM model year 2009 to model year 2010 . . . . . . 335
39.3 Wheel allocation for Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion; type 1KM model year 2007 to model
year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
40 Golf Variant BlueMotion model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
40.1 Golf Variant BlueMotion, type 1KM model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
40.2 Wheel allocation for Golf Variant BlueMotion, type 1KM model year 2008 to model year
2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
41 Jetta Model Year 2006 to Model Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
41.1 Jetta, type 1KM model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
41.2 Jetta, type 1KM model year 2007 to model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
41.3 Jetta, type 1KM model year 2009 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
41.4 Wheel allocation for Jetta, type 1KM model year 2006 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
42 Jetta BlueMotion from Model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
42.1 Jetta BlueMotion, type 1KM model year 2008 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
42.2 Wheel allocation for Jetta BlueMotion, type 1KM model year 2008 to model year 2011 . . 388
43 Golf cabriolet model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
43.1 Golf cabriolet type 1EX0 model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
43.2 Wheel allocation for Golf cabriolet, type 1EX0 from model year 1994 to model year 1997
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44 Golf cabriolet model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
44.1 Golf cabriolet; type 1E from model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
44.2 Wheel allocation for Golf cabriolet; type 1E from model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . 403
45 Vento from model year 1992 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
45.1 Vento; type 1HX0, 1H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
45.2 Wheel allocation for Vento; type 1HX0, 1H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
46 Bora model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
46.1 Bora, Bora 4Motion, type 1J model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
46.2 Wheel allocation for Bora, Bora 4Motion, type 1J model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . 422
46.3 Conditions for fitting 17" wheels and tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
47 New Beetle from model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
47.1 New Beetle, type 9C model year 1999 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
47.2 Wheel allocation for New Beetle, type 9C model year 1999 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . 437
47.3 Conditions for fitting 17" wheels and tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
48 New Beetle Cabriolet from model year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
48.1 New Beetle Cabriolet, type 1Y model year 2003 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
48.2 Wheel allocation for New Beetle Cabriolet, type 1Y model year 2003 to model year 2010
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48.3 Conditions for fitting 17" wheels and tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463
49 New Beetle RSi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
49.1 New Beetle RSi, type 9CR from model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
49.2 Wheel allocation for New Beetle RSi, type 9CR from model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
50 Passat model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
50.1 Passat, type 35l model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
50.2 Wheel allocation for Passat, type 35l model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . 470
51 Passat model year 1997 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
51.1 Passat, Passat Variant, type 3B model year 1997 to model year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
51.2 Passat, Passat Variant, type 3B model year 1997 to model year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
51.3 Passat, Passat Variant, type 3BG model year 2001 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
51.4 Wheel allocation for Passat, Passat Variant, type 3BG model year 2001 to model year
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51.5 Passat W8 4Motion, type 3BS model year 2002 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
51.6 Wheel allocation for Passat W8 4Motion, type 3BS model year 2002 to model year 2005
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51.7 Passat Protect, type 3BL model year 2002 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491
51.8 Wheel allocation for Passat Protect, type 3BL model year 2002 to model year 2005 . . . . 492
52 Passat saloon from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
52.1 Passat saloon, type 3C model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494
52.2 Passat saloon, type 3C model year 2007 to model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
52.3 Passat saloon, type 3C model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
52.4 Passat saloon, type 3C model year 2010 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
52.5 Wheel allocation for Passat saloon, type 3C model year 2006 to model year 2011 . . . . . . 516
53 Passat saloon BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
53.1 Passat saloon BlueMotion, type 3C model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
53.2 Passat saloon BlueMotion, type 3C model year 2010 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
53.3 Wheel allocation for Passat saloon BlueMotion, type 3C model year 2008 to model year
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54 Passat Variant from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
54.1 Passat Variant, type 3C model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
54.2 Passat Variant, type 3C model year 2007 to model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
54.3 Passat Variant, type 3C model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551
54.4 Passat Variant, type 3C model year 2010 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559
54.5 Wheel allocation for Passat Variant, type 3C model year 2006 to model year 2011 . . . . . . 563
55 Passat Variant BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572
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55.2 Passat Variant BlueMotion, type 3C model year 2010 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 574
55.3 Wheel allocation for Passat Variant BlueMotion, type 3C model year 2008 to model year
2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
56 Passat R36 from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
56.1 Passat R36, type 3C model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
56.2 Passat R36, type 3C model year 2010 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 586
56.3 Wheel allocation for Passat R36, type 3C model year 2008 to model year 2011 . . . . . . . . 587
57 Sharan from model year 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
57.1 Sharan, Sharan Syncro, type 7M model year 1996 to model year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 593
57.2 Wheel allocation for Sharan, Sharan Syncro. Type 7M model year 1996 to model year
2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596
57.3 Sharan, Sharan 4Motion, type 7M model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
57.4 Wheel allocation for Sharan, Sharan 4Motion, type 7M model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 601
57.5 Sharan, Sharan 4Motion, type 7M model year 2002 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
57.6 Wheel allocation for Sharan, Sharan 4Motion, type 7M model year 2002 to model year
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58 Sharan BlueMotion from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
58.1 Sharan BlueMotion, type 7M model year 2009 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611
58.2 Wheel allocation for Sharan BlueMotion, type 7M model year 2009 to model year 2010 . . 612
59 Touareg from model year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
59.1 Touareg, type 7L, model year 2003 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614
59.2 Wheel allocation for Touareg, type 7L model year 2003 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . 618
60 Touareg R50 from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
60.1 Touareg R50, type 7L model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
60.2 Wheel allocation for Touareg R50, type 7L model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . 628
61 Breakdown set for VW Vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
62 Temporary spare tyres and wheels for VW vehicles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
63 Recommended summer tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
63.1 Summer tyres for Lupo 3L model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
63.2 Summer tyres for Lupo FSI model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
63.3 Summer tyres for Lupo GTI model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
63.4 Summer tyres for Lupo model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
63.5 Summer tyres for Fox from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
63.6 Summer tyres for Polo model year 1995 to model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
63.7 Summer tyres for Polo saloon/sedan model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
63.8 Summer tyres for Polo Classic model year 1996 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
63.9 Summer tyres for Polo Variant model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
63.10 Summer tyres for Polo from model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
63.11 Summer tyres for Polo Fun model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
63.12 Summer tyres for CrossPolo from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
63.13 Summer tyres for Polo BlueMotion from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
63.14 Summer tyres for Polo GTI from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
63.15 Summer tyres for Polo GTI Cup Edition from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
63.16 Summer tyres for Golf, Vento model year 1992 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641
63.17 Summer tyres for Golf Variant model year 1994 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
63.18 Summer tyres for Golf cabriolet model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
63.19 Summer tyres for Golf, Golf 4Motion model year 1998 to model year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
63.20 Summer tyres for Golf model year 2004 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
63.21 Summer tyres for Golf BlueMotion model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
63.22 Summer tyres for Golf GTI model year 2005 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
63.23 Summer tyres for Pirelli Golf model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
63.24 Summer tyres for Golf R32 model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
63.25 Summer tyres for CrossGolf from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
63.26 Summer tyres for Golf Plus from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
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63.27 Summer tyres for Golf Plus BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
63.28 Summer tyres for Bora, Bora 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . 649
63.29 Summer tyres for Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2006,
Bora Variant, Bora Variant 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 650
63.30 Summer tyres for Golf R32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
63.31 Summer tyres for Golf Anniversary GTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
63.32 Summer tyres for Golf Variant model year 2007 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652
63.33 Summer tyres for Golf Variant BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
63.34 Summer tyres for Jetta Model Year 2006 to Model Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
63.35 Summer tyres for Jetta BlueMotion Model Year 2008 to Model Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
63.36 Summer tyres for Golf cabriolet model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
63.37 Summer tyres for New Beetle from model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657
63.38 Summer tyres for New Beetle Cabriolet from model year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
63.39 Summer tyres for New Beetle RSi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658
63.40 Summer tyres for Passat model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
63.41 Summer tyres for Passat model year 1997 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 659
63.42 Summer tyres for Passat W8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
63.43 Summer tyres for Passat Protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
63.44 Summer tyres for Passat saloon from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
63.45 Summer tyres for Passat saloon BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
63.46 Summer tyres for Passat Variant from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
63.47 Summer tyres for Passat Variant BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
63.48 Summer tyres for Passat R36 from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
63.49 Summer tyres for Sharan from model year 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
63.50 Summer tyres for Sharan BlueMotion from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665
63.51 Summer tyres for Touareg model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
63.52 Summer tyres for Touareg R50 model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666
64 Recommended all-season tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
64.1 All-season tyres Lupo model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
64.2 All-season tyres Polo model year 1995 to model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
64.3 All-season tyres for Polo from model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
64.4 All-season tyres Polo saloon/sedan model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
64.5 All-season tyres Golf, Vento model year 1992 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
64.6 All-season tyres Golf Variant model year 1994 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
64.7 All-season tyres Golf cabriolet model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
64.8 All-season tyres Golf, Golf 4Motion model year 1998 to model year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
64.9 All-season tyres for Golf model year 2004 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
64.10 All-season tyres for CrossGolf from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
64.11 All-season tyres for Golf Plus from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
64.12 All-season tyres Bora, Bora 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
64.13 All-season tyres Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2006,
Bora Variant, Bora Variant 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
64.14 All-season tyres Golf Variant model year 2007 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
64.15 All-season tyres Jetta Model Year 2006 to Model Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671
64.16 All-season tyres Golf cabriolet model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
64.17 All-season tyres for New Beetle from model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672
64.18 All-season tyres for New Beetle Cabriolet from model year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
64.19 All-season tyres Passat model year 1997 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
64.20 All-season tyres for Passat W8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673
64.21 All-season tyres for Passat saloon from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
64.22 All-season tyres for Passat saloon BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
64.23 All-season tyres for Passat Variant from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
64.24 All-season tyres for Passat Variant BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
64.25 All-season tyres for Passat R36 from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
64.26 All-season tyres for Touareg model year 2003 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
65 Recommended winter tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
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65.1 Winter tyres Lupo 3L model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
65.2 Winter tyres Lupo FSI model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
65.3 Winter tyres Lupo GTI model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676
65.4 Winter tyres Lupo model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
65.5 Winter tyres for Fox from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
65.6 Winter tyres Polo model year 1995 to model year 2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 677
65.7 Winter tyres for Polo from model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
65.8 Winter tyres for Polo Fun model year 2004 to model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
65.9 Winter tyres for CrossPolo from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
65.10 Winter tyres for Polo BlueMotion from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 678
65.11 Winter tyres for Polo GTI from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
65.12 Winter tyres for Polo GTI Cup Edition from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
65.13 Winter tyres Polo saloon/sedan model year 2004 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
65.14 Winter tyres Polo Classic model year 1996 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679
65.15 Winter tyres Polo Variant model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680
65.16 Winter tyres Golf, Vento model year 1992 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680
65.17 Winter tyres Golf Variant model year 1994 to model year 1998 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
65.18 Winter tyres Golf cabriolet model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
65.19 Winter tyres Golf, Golf 4Motion model year 1998 to model year 2004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681
65.20 Winter tyres for Golf model year 2004 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 682
65.21 Winter tyres for Golf BlueMotion model year 2004 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
65.22 Winter tyres for Golf GTI model year 2005 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
65.23 Winter tyres for Pirelli Golf model year 2008 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683
65.24 Winter tyres for Golf R32 model year 2006 to model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
65.25 Winter tyres for CrossGolf from model year 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
65.26 Winter tyres for Golf Plus from model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 684
65.27 Winter tyres for Golf Plus BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
65.28 Winter tyres Bora, Bora 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685
65.29 Winter tyres Golf Variant, Golf Variant 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2006, Bora
Variant, Bora Variant 4Motion model year 1999 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
65.30 Winter tyres for Golf 32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
65.31 Winter tyres for Golf Anniversary GTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686
65.32 Winter tyres Golf Variant model year 2007 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
65.33 Winter tyres for Golf Variant BlueMotion model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . 687
65.34 Winter tyres Jetta Model Year 2006 to Model Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
65.35 Winter tyres Jetta BlueMotion Model Year 2008 to Model Year 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
65.36 Winter tyres Golf cabriolet model year 1998 to model year 2002 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688
65.37 Winter tyres for New Beetle from model year 1999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
65.38 Winter tyres for New Beetle Cabriolet from model year 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 689
65.39 Winter tyres for New Beetle RSi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
65.40 Winter tyres Passat model year 1994 to model year 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
65.41 Winter tyres Passat model year 1997 to model year 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
65.42 Winter tyres for Passat W8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
65.43 Winter tyres for Passat Protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
65.44 Winter tyres for Passat saloon from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691
65.45 Winter tyres for Passat saloon BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
65.46 Winter tyres for Passat Variant from model year 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692
65.47 Winter tyres for Passat Variant BlueMotion from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
65.48 Winter tyres for Passat R36 from model year 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 693
65.49 Winter tyres for Sharan from model year 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
65.50 Winter tyres for Sharan BlueMotion from model year 2009 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
65.51 Winter tyres for Touareg model year 2003 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
65.52 Winter tyres for Touareg R50 model year 2008 to model year 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
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1998-2010 Volkswagen New Beetle OEM Service & Repair Manual
Keeping the New Beetle on the road means knowing its mechanics inside and out, and that’s exactly what the 1998-2010 Volkswagen New Beetle OEM Service & Repair Manual delivers. Straight from the factory, it lays out essential maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair procedures to keep the Beetle performing as intended.
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