How To Change A Tire

By Leeanne Utiger
Anyone who owns and drives a vehicle should know how to change a tire. You really never know when you are going to be caught on the side of the road simply needing to have to do this very thing. So this article is about how to change a tire. Changing a tyre may seem daunting to some, and maybe even a little scary.

There is not a great deal of hard work involved in knowing how to change a tire, especially if you have all of the required tools to help you to change the tire that is in need of changing.

In the boot, otherwise known as the trunk of your car, you should have a jack and a spare tire, as well as a wheelbrace. You will need to have both the jack and the spare wheel next to you within hands reach when you go about trying to change a tire.

When you learn how to change a tire, you will discover that you will in fact have to raise your car, before you can even consider being able to change the tire on your car. This is what the jack is for. You need to slide or wheel the jack under your car, towards the end of the car as to which the tire in need of change is situated. Make sure you have the jack wound up, or levered up enough, so that the tire you are going to learn how to change, is in fact raised up off the ground itself.

Now you are ready to learn the next stage in knowing how to change a tire. You can now with a wheelbrace loosen off the wheelnuts and remove the tire from the axel. Now that you have learned how to remove the tire, the only thing left to do, is learn how to replace that tire with the spare tire.

This is all relatively easy, as you are basically repeating the same procedure as what you went through when you learnt how to remove the tire, now you just need to do it backwards, and you will have replaced the tire that you needed to change with the spare tire.

So in more detail, about how to replace the tire you took off, with the spare tire, simply take hold of the spare tire and life it up, placing it on the axel. Then you need to replace the wheelnuts and tighten these up with the wheelbrace you used to take them off the other tire with. Once you have tightened up the wheelnuts, give the tire a spin to make sure it is not loose and that the tire is in fact securely in place. Once you are happy that you have learned how to and managed to change a tire that needed changing, you can then let the car down to ground level again, by unwinding or levering the jack back down. Remove the jack from under the car on which you have now successfully changed a tire on, and place all of the tools back into the boot or trunk of your car. Make sure you also remember to place the tire you learnt how to change in the boot or trunk of your car also.

There you have it. You have learned how to change a tire, and should now be able to do so, if and when you get stuck on the side of the road needing to change a tire.

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