How to Use a Breaker Bar to Change a Flat Tire

Video Transcript

"Hey I'm Jake from Burt Brother Tire and on behalf of expertvillage.com, we're going to talk about what is a breaker bar and how to use it and the importance of having one of these in your vehicle. First of all this is just a simple tool you can pick up at any parts house or any location that sells tools, hardware stores, you know even your dealership for your car should have something like this or a tire shop. Very important to have in your vehicle just for that one instance when you go to change that flat tire and you have one lug nut or all your lug nuts that are on there so tight that it's making it so difficult to remove. Let me demonstrate first of all how it uses. The longer one you have obviously the more leverage you're going to be able to work with in breaking free the lug nuts. You want to install it on the lug nut obviously, okay and then remove with your weight, with your weight pull it off to loosen it right here okay. So here is another one that requires a little bit of effort to lift it and remove the lug nut and start to loosen it. A lot of times when you have one that is on there very tight and not wanting to break free, you can install a long pipe or something that will be a little longer to help you get a little more leverage to pull and work your lug nuts loose there. It's very important to have one of these in the car, they're not that expensive and they do work out really well. Another tool that is very popular and works out very well is a multi fit. It usually has 4 different sizes for the most common lug nuts on cars, it's a 4 way lug wrench, works as the same purpose here and be able to install this on the lug nut here and with two arms break free the lug nuts and work it out. You have a little more leverage with this, you can see how it's longer and it works a lot better, so both work very well, they're very effective in helping you remove your tire. Thank you."