Vehicle test stand and method for carrying out measurement and adjustment work on a vehicle and for carrying out driving simulations using the vehicle test stand

A vehicle test stand comprising wheel receptacles for the wheels of a vehicle to be tested,

• wherein the wheel receptacles have in each case one support device to which are attached in each case one or two rollers on which the wheels of the vehicle to be tested bear;
• wherein at least one of the rollers of a wheel receptacle is assigned a drive and/or load unit;
• wherein in a first operating state of the wheel receptacles the respective support device is mounted so as to be rotatable about a vertical axis;
• wherein, in this first operating state of the wheel receptacle, the support device is mounted so as to be freely rotating in such a way that the support device is rotatable due to forces that are transmitted from the bearing wheels of the vehicle to the rollers;
• wherein
• at least parts of the drive and/or load units can be mechanically coupled to and decoupled from the respective roller;
• at least the couplable and decouplable parts of the drive and/or load units are not disposed on the respective support device;
• wherein the connection of the couplable and decouplable parts of the drive and/or load units to the respective roller of the wheel receptacle during the mechanical coupling of the couplable and decouplable parts of the drive and/or load units to the respective roller is embodied in such a way that the connection follows a rotation of the longitudinal axis of the respective roller about the vertical axis;
• and/or
• wherein the drive and/or load units in the vehicle test stand are movable in the horizontal plane such that the longitudinal axis of the connection of the drive and/or load units to the respective roller follows the change of the orientation of the longitudinal axis of the respective roller during a rotation of the support device about the vertical axis.