About the Owner's Manual Explanations
General points
Terms used
This Owner's Manual applies to all chassis variants
of the vehicle, including all models and trim levels.
“Specialist garage” - a workshop that carries out
specialist service tasks for Volkswagen vehi-
cles. A specialist company can do both
All possible trim levels are described here without
identifying them as special trims, model variants or
market-dependent equipment. This means that not
all the trim components described in this Owner's
Manual are available in your vehicle.
a Volkswagen Service partner or a Volkswa-
gen Be a partner who is authorized to provide
services as well as an independent workshop.
“Volkswagen Service partner” - A workshop that
has been contractually authorised by Volks-
wagen or its sales partner to service Volkswa-
gen vehicles and to sell Volkswagen Genuine
Parts.
The Illustrations in these operating instructions are
purely illustrative and are to be understood as gen-
eral information. The illustrations may differ from
your vehicle.
“Volkswagen Partner” - A company that has been
contractually authorised by Volkswagen or its
distribution partner to sell new Volkswagen
vehicles and, when applicable, to service
them using VolkswagenGenuine Parts and
sell VolkswagenGenuine Parts.
Volkswagen AG is constantly working on the further
development of all vehicles. It is therefore possible
for changes to be made at any time to the scope of
delivery in terms of shape, equipment and technolo-
gy. The information contained in this Owner's Man-
ual corresponds to the information available at the
time of going to press.
Text notes
No legal claims can therefore be derived from the
technical data, illustrations and information in this
Owner’s Manual.
“Press” - short press (e.g. a button) within 1 second
“Hold” - Long press (e.g. a button) for more than
1 s
Direction indications
All direction indications such as “left”, “right”,
“front”, “rear” relate to the forward direction of
travel of the vehicle.
Units
The values are given in metric units.
The units of length are given in English miles.
DANGER
Texts with this symbol indicate dangerous situa-
tions which, if the safety instructions are not ob-
served, will result in death or serious injury.
WARNING
Texts with this symbol indicate dangerous situa-
tions which, if the safety instructions are not ob-
served, could result in death or serious injury.
CAUTION
Texts marked with this symbol indicate dangerous
situations which, if the safety instructions are not
observed, could result in minor or moderate injury.
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