We are still working to obtain content for your car, however the video above is believed to have similar characteristics as your car. This video shows you how to change the oil and oil filter in your 2006 Volkswagen Touareg. When you change your own oil, you know that you are putting quality oil in your Touareg and that the filter is being changed too. Most importantly, you get a chance to look around under your Touareg for potential trouble spots. This video shows you the location of your oil drain plug, oil filter, oil fill cap and dipstick in addition to the steps needed to change the oil and filter in your Touareg. For most Volkswagens, you can wrap an old belt around the oil filter and unscrew it by hand. If you can't do this, see our parts page to find a Volkswagen Touareg oil filter wrench. If your Touareg is too low to the ground to access your drain plug and oil filter, be sure to use jack stands and safe jacking procedures before getting under your Touareg. Change a burnt out headlight Avoid tickets and accidents with both working headlights! Top up the oil level Many cars will burn or leak a little bit of oil. Over time, this adds up and you might need to add some - learn how to here! Replace your air filter! Replacing a dirty air filter can improve gas mileage by up to 4%. Isn't efficiency great?
What sets the interior so far apart from its rivals' is the design around the dashboard. Volkswagen calls it the Innovision Cockpit and it is a thing to behold. Volkswagen's designers have carefully created what appears to be one huge display consisting of a 12-inch screen for the instrument cluster and a whopping 15-inch touchscreen for the infotainment and navigation. The latter sits at an angle canted towards the driver and the seam between the two panels is usually obscured by the steering wheel, giving you a beautiful and crisp high definition display. Not only is it highly configurable, but it also has a slightly matt finish to it, which helps reduce the usual profusion of fingerprints. Complementing this is an optional head-up display. Throughout the rest of the cabin are materials and a level of finish that Audi would be envious of. It's a simple interior, but the more you look, the more little details you see. The finish changes depending on what specification grade you go for, with sportier R Line models getting darker and more modern materials, for example.
Lighter colours add to the cabin's sense of space and items such as open pore ash wood trim along the surround of the dashboard make this look and feel top notch. The obvious disadvantage that the Touareg incurs is that it is only available as a five-seater, unlike its main rivals that offer a five-plus-two arrangement or full seven-seat setups. More positively, by sticking to a five-seat configuration, it benefits rear legroom and affords ample boot space of up to 810 litres before you start folding the rear seats down. Rear passenger head- and legroom are generous, with only the wide transmission tunnel encroaching on foot room for those sitting in the centre seat. Volkswagen has done an exceptional job on the new Touareg's refinement. It can waft along at a deceptively brisk pace as you remain ensconced in a bubble of exquisite design and some of the best technology currently available.
Much of that comfort is to do with the air suspension that our test cars featured, and you'd have to drive on some pretty poor surfaces for the Touareg to start feeling unsettled, even on the 20-inch wheels. When equipped with the optional Adaptive Chassis Control, the setup does change according to which drive mode you have chosen, as does the throttle and steering response. We'll have to wait until the car arrives in Ireland before we'll have an opportunity to drive it with the standard passive steel spring suspension, however. Another trick part of the suspension setup is the electronically controlled anti-roll bars that perform well in eliminating almost all the car's body lean in corners. We've already seen this type of system employed in the Bentley Bentayga and Porsche Cayenne to good effect. Although it is technically capable of eliminating body roll, it is tuned to allow a small amount so that drivers don't lose sight of the laws of physics when cornering at higher speeds.
With Comfort mode engaged on the air suspension, the active roll stabilisation disengages to allow for even more comfort, but lean does increase. From the outset Volkswagen has been clear that comfort rather than sportiness is the primary focus of the Touareg. That said, it is capable of being hustled along at a brisk pace. Optional four-wheel steering can turn the rear wheels in phase with the fronts at speeds above 37km/h resulting in more stable lane changes. Below that speed the rear wheels turn up to five degrees in the opposite direction to the front wheels, resulting in faster turn-in. When manoeuvring in tighter spaces is called for it comes into its own. Volkswagen says that this system gives the Touareg a turning circle of 11.2 metres, only slightly larger than the Golf's. It has no trouble in pushing on, thanks to the torquey V6 diesel engine. The power delivery is smooth, but it's an engine that prefers to cruise rather than be driven with urgency.
