Volkswagen Polo Service & Repair Manual: Vehicle Pulls to One Side

Wear Spots

Wear spots are caused by a hard stop with locked wheels whereby the rubber compound is abraded from the contact patch. When the tires slide across th ...

General Information

Perform a road test to determine if a vehicle pulls to one side and if so, when and to which side. If the vehicle pulls to one side. Refer to → Chapt ...

Other materials:

Wheel Bolt Versions
Shank Designs There are two shank designs: rounded and conical.     The rounded shank has a curved surface -arrow A-. This design was used for original rims. The conic ...

Vibration, Road Test, Performing Before Balancing
If a vehicle comes to the workshop with the complaint “vibration”, a road test must be performed before balancing the wheels. That way, information about the type of vibration can be obtained. Obser ...

Pressures, Checking
  Note Check cooling performance. The A/C system is functioning correctly when the air flowing from the instrument panel vents has a temperature of 70C or lower. Setting on Climatronic “LO”. ...