Method for producing a vehicle tyre comprising a tyre carcass, tyre beads with cores, a tyre breaker belt and a tread rubber, with the following steps: a) producing a tyre carcass, comprising a first and a second tyre bead (25, 26), on a carcass drum, no tyre building parts in the form of sidewalls (2, 3) being placed on the carcass drum, b) removing the tyre carcass from the carcass drum by means of a carcass transfer unit, c) moving the carcass transfer unit with the tyre carcass to a transfer position, the tyre carcass being positioned coaxially in relation to two sidewall drums (1, 4) each with a wound-up sidewall (2, 3), d) expanding the first sidewall drum with the first sidewall, the expansion movement having the effect that the first sidewall, lying on the first sidewall drum, is joined onto the coaxially positioned tyre carcass in the region of the first tyre bead and e) expanding the second sidewall drum with the second sidewall, the expansion movement having the effect that the second sidewall, lying on the second sidewall drum, is joined onto the coaxially positioned tyre carcass in the region of the second tyre bead, f) moving the carcass transfer unit with the tyre carcass and the joined-on sidewalls (2, 3) coaxially in relation to a shaping drum, g) transferring the tyre carcass from the carcass transfer unit to the shaping drum, h) moving the carcass transfer unit away from the shaping drum, i) shaping the tyre carcass with the sidewalls (2, 3) that are joined on both sides, the sidewalls (2, 3) being turned up laterally on the tyre carcass by a turning-up means and the tyre carcass being combined with the coaxially arranged breaker-belt/tread-rubber assembly, j) completing the tyre blank by a conventional production process. a) producing a tyre carcass, comprising a first and a second tyre bead (25, 26), on a carcass drum, no tyre building parts in the form of sidewalls (2, 3) being placed on the carcass drum, b) removing the tyre carcass from the carcass drum by means of a carcass transfer unit, c) moving the carcass transfer unit with the tyre carcass to a transfer position, the tyre carcass being positioned coaxially in relation to two sidewall drums (1, 4) each with a wound-up sidewall (2, 3), d) expanding the first sidewall drum with the first sidewall, the expansion movement having the effect that the first sidewall, lying on the first sidewall drum, is joined onto the coaxially positioned tyre carcass in the region of the first tyre bead and e) expanding the second sidewall drum with the second sidewall, the expansion movement having the effect that the second sidewall, lying on the second sidewall drum, is joined onto the coaxially positioned tyre carcass in the region of the second tyre bead, f) moving the carcass transfer unit with the tyre carcass and the joined-on sidewalls (2, 3) coaxially in relation to a shaping drum, g) transferring the tyre carcass from the carcass transfer unit to the shaping drum, h) moving the carcass transfer unit away from the shaping drum, i) shaping the tyre carcass with the sidewalls (2, 3) that are joined on both sides, the sidewalls (2, 3) being turned up laterally on the tyre carcass by a turning-up means and the tyre carcass being combined with the coaxially arranged breaker-belt/tread-rubber assembly, j) completing the tyre blank by a conventional production process.