Can Bus Lines Repair Information

WARNING: This page is about a different variant/trim than selected.

Unshielded two-strand wiring -1 and 2- with a cross section of 0.35 mm² and/or 0.5 mm² can be used as CAN bus wiring.

Fig 1: Identifying Repair In Twisted Wire Pairs
Courtesy of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA, INC.
The color coding of CAN bus lines can be found in the following table:

Repairs on CAN bus lines can be performed using repair wire with matching cross section, and also using twisted wires "green/yellow" and "white/yellow" from the Parts Information.
When repairing CAN bus lines, both wires must be same length. When twisting together wires -1- and -2-, the lay length of A = 20 mm must be observed.

Fig 2: Identifying Repair In Twisted Wire Pairs
Courtesy of VOLKSWAGEN GROUP OF AMERICA, INC.
While doing this, no section of the wire also in area of crimp connectors -arrow-, may be greater than B = 50 mm without twisting of the wires.
Wrap repair locations with yellow adhesive tape to mark a performed repair.