10 Tips:How To Change Your Car Tyre
It always happens in the awkward of moments: it happened to Ronny when he was going on a blind date; it happened to Sheila when she was on her way to attend her best friend’s wedding!
Just imagine the horror of Sheila when she discovered herself in her best little black dress and designer stilettos in the middle of nowhere with a flat tyres! And just imagine Ronny in his Armani suit kicking off the car in dismay because he is not actually a master in the art of tyre changing.
The predicaments of Sheila and Ronny can be good eye opener for any driver:
It is possible to change the car tyres fast and without making a mess of your car and yourself by learning certain tricks. The first among them is keeping your calm.
If you suspect a puncture in the tyre, follow these steps one by one:
So now that you are safely off the traffic way let’s come to the job of tyre changing.
- Switch off the ignition and engage the hand brake.
- Now you will need to take out the carpet of your car boot and remove the spare tyre, jack, and wheel wrench.
- Before you jack up the vehicle loosen the wheel nuts on the tyres.
- Now use the car jack to raise up the vehicle. A little home work task comes in handy here and it makes sense if you have already taken the trouble of going through the manufacturer’s manual. However, you may also find instructions printed on the jack or other portions of storage areas.
- now you need to remove the wheel nuts from the tyres; again maintain your calm and put them safely aside.
- Remove the flat tyre and keep it on one side.
- Now put the new tyre on the car. Tighten the wheel nuts just lightly. You need to give the final tightening when the car is off the jack. Double check so that the holes in the tyre rightly align with the studs that stick out. Also make sure to place the tyre on with the air valve facing you. Take a cue from other the tyres while trying this step.
- Now slowly lower the jack and let the wheel touch the road. Use your wheel spanner to tighten all of the wheel nuts securely.
- make sure you have put all the tools and the flat tyre back into the boot of your car.
- give a thorough check to the wheel nuts for the last time to see it is tightened properly
A last note of advice to help you avoid ruin your day completely; get your flat tyre repaired at the first chance you get, since a spare tyre often doesn’t allow you to drive for more than certain distance.
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Nice posts! Very informative. It is a must to take good care of our car. It is also important to keep the car and its parts (like volvo wheels) clean at all times. By doing this simple tips, we can save money as well as have a safe driving at all times
i am glad some one put this togther as how many time do you see some one doing this wong
Use a TyreTote to keep you and your car clean
actually you describe changing a wheel with a tyre fitted. i wanted to know how to put a new tyre on a wheel. A
Hmm.. this has got absolutely nothing to do with changing a tyre.. only explains how to change a wheel.
it explains how to change punctured tyre to spair to change tyre on the wheel u will need a machine it is far to hard without a tyre machine
this is how to change a WHEEL not tyre, tyre is the black ruber bit!!!
Gibberish
As a quick note, I’ll be writing an updated article on how to change a wheel (which will include the rubber bit, aka your tyre!) and also discuss how a garage would change a tyre.
There are some remarkably pedantic people posting in these comments! And I say that as someone who has been accused of being pedantic in the past
When most people use the phrase “changing a tyre”, what they are talking about is changing a flat tyre for the spare “tyre” (in actual fact an entire wheel). This is just the terminology in current everyday use, and therefore the title of the article is perfectly correct in that sense. Internet articles need to have titles which reflect the words people will use when using a search engine.
Thanks Miss D – it’s true that the article reflects the changing of a wheel (rubber and all) for another. One reason for this is that, simply put, none of us drive the model T anymore and to put a new tyre on a rim is actually quite a specialist job (people put air in tyres, petrol in cars but few add a tyre to a rim on a weekly basis). I may in future write an article that expounds upon this fact however.
Kind regards,
Mr B (a self confessed car pedant, if nothing else. Stop getting TVR wrong!)
I found the advice easy enough so that I could change the Wheel (not tyre!!)