Sometimes, you may get huge sound of dead tyre while you are driving. At that you cannot drive, then you need to replace the flat tyre with spare tyre for your vehicle. Replacing the flat tyre may not be pleasant, but it is necessary. There is the procedure to change the flat tyre.
- You need to have the specific tools such as jack, lug wrench and spare tyre, flashlight, plastic rain poncho, tyre gauge and tyre blocks.
- First, you should find out a suitable place for vehicle to change the flat tyre. You should go far with the vehicle having flat tyre.
- You can loose the lug nuts by using the wrench. Generally, there are 4 to 5 nuts and some of have under the hubcap, so you can remove the hubcap to loose the nuts.
- To remove the wheel, corner of the car needs to be raised. You can lift the car up to 6 inches to give the gap from ground by using a jack. There are different places to different vehicles to keep the jack.
- Now old wheel can be removed after removing the nuts. You take out the wheel by two sides of the tyre.
- There should be match holes of the spare and lug nuts. Spare wheel can be fixed in the wheel base correctly.
- Then tight the lug nuts in proper manner, but not very tight. When you remove the jack from beneath of the car and lower the car ground level then you can tight the lug nuts. But you should not tight one after one, one of them should be tighten 50 percent then you go for opposite one and make it tight like previous one. After they can be tighten fully in such order.
So in this, you can replace the flat tyre for your vehicle on your own. But, you should have be aware of the tools and their use.