How to Install a New Tire on Your Car

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 install a tire or your spare tire on your vehicle after you've changed it. Okay, I'm going to show you on my actual tire here but your spare is like using the same tire or it may be a temporary spare. So you roll the tire in in front of it, try to get it worked up in here and just lift it onto the hub and get it onto all the lug nuts here. So you grab your lug nuts and all of them are going to have a little acorn size little end here vs. the flat side. You want to install them with the acorn side in toward the rim, okay and put them in in a star pattern. If you've got 6 lug nuts or 4 lug nuts, just cross over here. Get your lug nuts started, spin them back on here and just shove them back and forth here. The lug nuts once again we want to use the acorn side, the side that points in inside the wheel here, that makes everything go together smoother vs. putting them in flat like that. You want to put them in with the acorn style in. Okay. So you tighten those up and it works out the best if you can screw them on as tight as you can before you got to get the wrench out. Okay, and then grab that and you always want to continue on in your star formation so it makes sure that the tire goes on over the hub all together right there and you get it all on tight. Okay. A good way to check that too that you've got it on correct is you've got about the same amount of lug stud showing through on all side studs. You want to go around with the breaker bar and get it as tight as you can and you can see that the tire is going to spin here. I don't have it tight enough yet, I need to lower it down on the jack here now and I'll show you how to do that in the next step."