Battery, Starter, Generator, Cruise Control (A3 Platform)

• Model Application
  • Cabrio
  • Early Production 1999 Golf, GTI, & Jetta
• Battery
  • General information
  • Battery, assembly
  • Battery handling instructions
  • Warnings and safety measures for handling lead -acid batteries
  • Visual check
  • Electrolyte level, checking
    • Special tools and equipment
  • Specific gravity, checking
  • No load voltage measurement
    • Special tools and equipment
  • Load test
    • Notes
    • Special tools and equipment
    • Performing battery load test
  • Battery charging
    • Notes
    • Special tools and equipment
    • Battery charging
    • Procedures for totally discharged batteries
      • Remarks concerning totally discharged batteries
  • Battery, removing and installing
    • Notes
    • Removing
    • Installing
• Starter motor
  • Identifying
  • Starter motor, removing and installing
    • Notes
    • Removing
      • Notes
      • All engines with automatic transmission, starter fasteners
• Generator (GEN) with ribbed belt and mounting bracket, assembly
  • 4-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines with power steering, without A/C
  • 4-cylinder diesel engine with power steering and A/C
  • 4-cylinder gasoline engine with power steering and A/C
  • 6-cylinder VR6 engine
• Ribbed belts and V -belts, routing and sizes
  • Notes
  • Routing
    • 4-cylinder gasoline engine with power steering, without A/C
    • 4-cylinder gasoline engine with power steering and A/C
    • 4-cylinder diesel engine with power steering, without A/C
    • 4-cylinder diesel engine with power steering and A/C
    • 6-cylinder VR6 engine
  • Ribbed belt, removing and installing (vehicles with 4-cyl. engine)
    • Belt drive without tensioner
      • Notes
      • Removing
      • Installing
    • Belt drive with tensioner
      • Notes
      • Removing
      • Installing
    • Ribbed belt drive without A/C
    • Ribbed belt drive with A/C
  • Ribbed drive belt, removing and installing (vehicles with VR6 engine)
    • Removing
    • Installing
• Generator (GEN), servicing
  • Generator carbon brushes, checking
  • Ribbed belt (Generator) pulley, removing and installing
  • Generator ribbed belt pulley with freewheel clutch (4-cylinder TDI engine with Bosch generators only), removing and installing
    • Notes
    • Removing
    • Installing
    • Retrofitting
    • Torque wrench modification