It's about 7:30 in the morning. You're in your car driving along the freeway on your way to a job interview. All of a sudden you feel your car pull sharply to the right as you begin thumping along the road. You quickly realize that you have a flat tire. What should you do? You're expected to arrive at an interview in about thirty minutes and you're only about fifteen minutes away. In this kind of situation you usually only have about two options. Either safely pull off the road, call for assistance, and wait for help to arrive (which most likely means that you won't make it on time to the interview). Or you can safely pull off the road and change the tire yourself (which gives you a better chance of still being able to make it on time). Well, lets say that you decided to change it yourself. The following is the procedure you would need to follow in order to change the tire.
First, and most important, be sure that you're in the safest available spot to conduct this procedure.
Next, make sure that your car is in park and that you've applied your emergency break (If you skip this step your car will move which is very dangerous for you as well as others).
Than locate your jack, lug wrench, and spare tire.
If you are missing any of these items you will have no chance of being able to accomplish this task in time. I would suggest that you call someone instead.
Once you've located all the items needed, remove them from your car and lay them out near the flat tire.
You will then need to grab the lug wrench and begin to loosen the lug nuts (those are the screws which hold your tires to the car).
EDo not completely unscrew the lug nuts, just loosen them.
Ý If your car has a hub cap on it, you will first need to pop the hub cap off and then loosen the lug nuts.
Once the lug nuts are loosened, locate the strongest part of your car closest to the flat tire wh
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