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Volkswagen Golf Mk7 Service & Repair Manual: Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change

WARNING: perform every check listed here to ensure Volkswagen Golf Mk7 wheel bolts and wheels are properly secured — this page also flags a specific note for tyre-pressure-indicator- equipped vehicles.

  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.
 

Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change

–  Check to ensure that contact surface -arrow- on centring seat of brake disc are free of corrosion and dirt.
 

Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change

–  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.
 

Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change

–  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.
 

Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change

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    Wheel change, installation instructions for wheel change — Volkswagen Golf Mk7

    What are the Golf Mk7 wheel change installation instructions?
    Offer the wheel, hand-tighten all bolts, lower the car, then torque to 120 Nm in a star pattern. Re-torque after 50 km.
    Wheel change, installation requirements
    Warming cold tyres to minimum installation temperature   Note This instruction also applies to ultra-high performance tyres (h ...

    Wheel change, wheel installation
    –  Preserving wheel centring seat → Chapter. 1 -  When fitting the wheel, pull in all wheel bolts uniformly by ...