Driving
car is obviously an easy job, but to drive a car one necessarily does
not need a license. You have to be efficient enough to spot a
problem, point it out and solve. One problem is changing a flat tire.
While driving a car, one always has to keep a check on the tires. If
you own a car that has an alert, then luck is on your side. However,
changing tire is certainly not thrilling.
How
to get to know about low air pressure?
So
it is time you must know. Suppose that the front left tire has low
pressure. If you are an experienced driver, then steering the car
towards left, you will find it difficult and a bit firm. In rare
cases, tires do burst and create loud noises. In this situation, you
should simply take your car towards left and park it on a level
ground. After parking, exit your car and inspect the tire. Moreover,
don’t panic too much when you see a flat tire as it is quite easy
to change one. The first step is to find a spare tire, jack and tire
iron. Often these things could be found underneath the carpet in your
car’s trunk. Once you find these accessories, check the air
pressure of your spare tire.
Assuming
it to be perfect, move on with the jack and tire iron. Now you have
to remove the flat tire. Before this, make sure your car is in gear
or “parking” mode. Also, it must be on a flat pavement and not on
a slope or even in a dirty area. It would be great if the opposite
tired is blocked by a brick or something so that the car does not
move. Now use the L-shaped iron that fixes over wheel nut to loosen
each wheel nut. You don’t need to open, but loosen. Once you are
done with it, move the jack under the car. There are jack points
underneath the car. Simply move the jack and rotate the knob while
the jack expands upwards and the car starts to go upwards. After
jack expansion is complete and the car is completely raised, remove
the lugs that you already loosened. Keep them in a secure area.
Now
take out the flat tire and keep it aside. After that, place the spare
tire exactly in a position that it comes over the wheel studs. Now
simply place the lugs from where you took them off and tighten them
by the iron. Now that the spare tire is on perfectly, start to
contract the jack that you placed under the car. Moreover, make sure
that you tightened the nuts very perfectly. Pull the jack away and
check the lugs again.
That
is it. You have changed the tire; now put the flat tire in place of
spare tire. Also, keep the jack and tire iron where they were kept.
Don’t
even think of depending on the spare tire completely and get a new
tire as soon as possible.
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