How to Change a Tire

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Richard Goms, we're here in Murray, Utah, we're talking about basic car care. We've got the car jacked up already and I'm going to show you how to change a tire. We take the jack handle that is intended to have a nut driver that will fit over the lug nuts of your car and we put it on a lug nut and then we twist. Now if you have trouble, you can put it on this way and then step on it and break loose the lug nuts. But you just twist and twist and twist. Once you have them loose, you can just do this and take off each lug nut of which there are five on this tire. And you take off each lug nut, there are five on this tire until you can remove the tire. Now it doesn't matter which order you take off the lug nuts, but it does matter the order that you put them back on. OK, here's the last lug nut. Now you've got all five lug nuts off of there so we can pull, grab onto the wheel and the tire, make sure not to pinch your fingers in anything, and then we can change the tire. Let's say this tire is flat and you need to replace it with your spare, you should be able to locate your spare by looking in the owners manual. You should always carry a spare. You should always make sure its full of air and in good shape. It may be a full size tire like this, or it may be one of those smaller tires that you can only run for about 30 or 40 miles. Either way, this is how you would put it back on. You get the tire up next to the wheel and you line up the holes in the tire with the studs sticking out of the wheel. Once you have the tire back up, you've got the holes all lined up, you've got it back, sitting up above the ground on the wheel, then you get the lug nuts out and start putting them on one at a time."