Sunday, November 14, 2010

Changing tires????

can u pleasae give me step by step instuctions on how to change a tireChanging tires????
pretty easy anytime and something everydrive should know and doChanging tires????
Here is how I do it. Grab my cell phone get into my wallet pull out my Triple A membership card. Call them. Wait for a guy in a tow truck to come. Have him fix it. Then say thank you and leave. :)
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That is almost impossible to do here...because it would take page after page of instructions. And, you don't say what make and model car, which tire, is it automatic or standard...do you have flat tires already? Do you have a spare? What kind of jack are you using-do you have a tire iron or an X wrench?

Are any of your lugnuts 'lock' nuts instead of regular?

See what I mean?
Pull out the jack and lug wrench, jack up the car, pull off the lug nuts, pull off the tire, get the spare tire, put it on, tighten the lug nuts, lower the jack, and put the jack and lug wrench back in the car.
What did you want to change the tire into?
1. Make sure car is on level ground.



2. Set parking brakes.



3. Use a chock (if available) on any tire not being changed.



4. Slightly loosen all lugnuts on the wheel being changed. Do not back out all lugnuts.



5. Place jack under the appropriate support. Read your car manual for the location. Make sure based of jack is on a steady/flat surface.



6. Jack up the corner of the car where wheel needs to be replaced. Jack up until wheel is off ground.



7. Back out all lugnuts.



8. Remove wheel.



9. Replace wheel and start inserting lugnuts.



10. Hand tight lugnuts but do not apply torque.



11. Lower car.



12. Tighten all lugnuts. Remove chock. Store everything.



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I strongly recommend going to the nearest mechanic and hav him/her retorque the lugnuts properly. You can have them repair the flat as well.
loosen the lug nuts, jack up the car, take the lugs off, take the tire off, put the new tire on, tighten the lugs but not all the way, lower the car to the ground and tighten the lugs all the way
1) Join a car club/ recovery type thingy.

2) phone them in your best damsel in distress voice.

3) give them your location/ car type/ etc.

4) Wait a while.



OR



1) Get the spare ready.

2) Slightly loosen wheel nuts.

3) Jack it up until the flat tyre is about ';3 or so above road.

4) Undo all wheel nuts and remove flat tyre.

5) Fit spare

6) Put the nuts back on and tighten across the face of wheel that is nut 1 @ 12o'clock nut 2 @ 6o'clock nut 3 @ 3o'clock etc.

7) Lower jack and FIRMLY tighten ALL wheel nuts.

8) put all tools and flat tyre into boot/ trunk. Get flat fixed asap.

9) Drive off but keep an eye on changed wheel because if you didn't tighten it will work lose after a period of time.

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