How to Change a Tire

okay had a lot of requests for how to change a flat tire it's a fairly simple process but if you've never done it before it might be a little bit intimidating so if you're on a hill you want to make sure to put something behind the opposite tire in the back I'm not really on much of a hill so I'm not too worried about it right now so we'll go ahead and get started your lug wrench you want to do this first before you jack up the car because if you jack up the car first and then your reefing on these lug nuts good luck you might knock knock the car off the jack and you don't want to do that so here we go and when you take them off and when you put them back on you want to go in a star pattern especially it's more important when you're putting it back on but we'll just go ahead just follow that for now cake so we just want to get them loose like that for now this is a scissors Jack and you actually to get it out you can tighten them a little bit cuz then when you put it back in you just tighten it to make it nice and snug in okay just lower it and then you'll see you'll be able to see underneath your we're this not just this notch right here it's there's that groove down inside that much to give it some stability the way this jack works is this just goes up inside here like that and then this just fits on here some of them are pretty oaky so we just want to get it where that tire just off the ground we're getting close so we're golden there now you just go ahead and put on the rest of the way so we're gonna put on a spare tire that's really just exactly that it's a spare tire it's only to get from one place to another you don't want to write on it for very long because that thing blows out in be in a world of hurt make sure you like those all stayed there you're looking at somewhere so they roll away on you that aside got my spear okay now make sure they're snug the jack is down [Music] well I guess I'm this one this only goes one way but that little indent there that goes in some of them actually don't have an end on it so you you know don't make that mistake of having it be the opposite way so again these spare tires are just meant to get you back to a entire place to get your real tire fix they're not meant it's don't write on them you see people driving around on them and I think they use them as a tire but don't do it you just need to use it for a temporary tire just to get you back back to safety right and in a star pattern sometimes you'll have four so you can't do that but most of them okay that's about that's about the size of it I think you got it thanks here's a close-up looks like and then what I was doing was just put this hook inside there all right and then this has a little notch in it you can see that then that just went over here and then I just tightened it that's how you tell you this okay [Music] we're good like that right so everything will fit back in in the trunk so obviously this tyre is a lot bigger than that tire so this tire would not actually sit back in the back of the trunk it will just you just put in your trunk put this tire right because you're not gonna drive on this tire great this monkey Tiger everybody say yes you're not driving on this tire for very long okay it's just temporary all right thank you here is what I was talking about on some some of these lug nuts this is an open end but on this one the end is closed and so you can see that where it's got the tapering you want that tapering to go in obviously there's no other way to do it on this one but I thought I'd show you that up close with that notch right there pay attention to where that notch is right because that's where your your valve stem goes somebody at Les Schwab the last time I had my tires replaced they put this on wrong so even they do it so I couldn't get to my my nozzle to fill it up with air so put that on right there right okay again I'm putting on the big tire again so this one for some reason has that as a hubcap that usually the hubcap fits over anyway so again as you do it another reminder star pattern okay just just a little snug now we're gonna let down the jack and then once we let it down we just tighten it up thanks for watching all right there we go thanks for watching appreciate it