How to Properly Change a Flat Tire

Series Summary

The only thing worse than getting a flat tire on the side of the road at night, is getting a flat tire on the side of the road at night and not knowing how to change the flat. Changing out a flat tire and putting on the spare is really not as hard it may seem. You can learn how to do it and much faster than you think, especially if you have an expert show you how to change the flat. If you would like to learn how to change out a flat tire and replace it with your spare, you can learn for free from one of our experts.

In this free how to video series, learn from expert Jake Burt as he teaches you how to change a flat tire. Jake will demonstrate how to jack up a car, how to use a breaker bar to loosen the lug nuts, how to remove a car tire, how to install a new tire on your car, how to check the lug nuts, how to check the tire pressure, and how to stay clean while changing your tire! Additionally, in this series you can learn how to check for irregular tire wear, how to rotate your tire, and when replace your car tires.

Video Transcript

"Hey I'm Jake from Burt Brother Tire and on behalf of expertvillage.com, we're going to show you how to properly change a flat tire. Okay, first of all you want to come on in here, we notice we got a flat tire here, so we want to come up here and remove this center cap. Okay, now most of the cars today will have a center cap like this or even a hub cap that covers the whole wheel and the lug nuts right here. We need to gain access to those lug nuts. So we remove the cap first of all, get the jack in position and we want to loosen the lug nuts cause once it's up in the air the tire will spin. Okay, so we just loosen them, we don't want to totally take them off right now. Then we're going to raise the vehicle up on a jack. That's how you loosen the lug nuts to start to remove the tire and in preparation to changing a flat. If they stick you might need a bigger bricker bar or to call a tow truck or something that is similar to an air tool or a bigger wrench to help you remove them. But with regular rotations and having the parts to come on and off should help your lug nuts come off easily to the car here."