How to change a tire
Picture this situation: you are driving in the middle of nowhere, heading to a very important meeting, when suddenly your tire goes flat and you realize you're screwed because you don't know how to change it! You have to make phone calls and wait for help, and in the mean time, you miss your meeting. Well, with this quick, step-by-step guide you can easily become a pro without any previous knowledge of an automobile. The following is the best guide for how to change a tire.
The very first thing you want to do is keep calm whenever the actual tire goes flat. Then, you need to pull off the road and out of the traffic flow (look for a level spot, it is unsafe to jack the car on an incline.) Next, you want to turn on your hazard lights. After that make sure you put the car in the "park" position if automatic transmission or put either first or reverse if standard transmission. Also, it's safer if you put heavy objects (such as rocks) in front of the front and back tires.
Gather your tools-you will need a jack, a spare tire (inflated properly) and a lug wrench (the star-shaped shiny tool that has holes for the lug nuts at the end of each point.) If you don't know where this tools are located, consult your owner's manual. If your vehicle has a hubcap over the tire, you want to remove that first. To do so you just pull it Off and away from the tire. Take the jack and place it behind the tire you are going to change (make sure you put it in a metallic surface, you don't want to ruin any plastic frame whenever you pump up the car.) Pump the jack up just a little bit so it supports but not lifts the car.
Use the lug wrench and loosen the nuts by turning counterclockwise. You don't want to take them off, only loosen them and break the resistance. By keeping the wheel on the ground you allow yourself to turn the nuts when you use the wrench and not turn the tire instead. If a nut is stuck you can use your body to turn the wrench (for instance making little jumps in it with your foot.) Once all of the nuts are loose, you can pump the car up using the jack. Remember to jack it up not only until you can pull the tire off, but until you'll be able to insert the spare one.
Finish removing the nuts and pull off the tire (it's better if you put your hands in the 3 O'clock and 9 O'clock position.) Insert the spare tire and push it all the way down. You now want to put the nuts on again and at first tighten them by hand and then by using the wrench (you only need to tight enough so the tire stays on its place while you lower the car.) Make sure that when you tight the nuts completely in the next step you do it in an evenly way (all the nuts at the same pressure.) A useful tip is going in a star shaped order (start with one, move to the opposite, and so on.) Jack the car down but don't let it rest only on the tire, instead leave the jack a little pumped as support. Finish tightening the nuts as tight as you can.
Finish pumping down the car and remove the jack. Get everything back to their proper location (including the flat tire below your car.) Recheck that you don't leave anything and that your tire is well fastened. You are good to go. Don't forget to get your tire repaired and to turn your hazard lights off. Have a nice meeting!
That's my essay. I really need a hundred ( I got a 60 on my last one and probably will get the same for the second one.) If I don't raise that grade things will get rerally bad. Thanks for your help guys!
By the way my teacher is nice but she DOES grade throughfully. The essay needs to be REALLY good to get a 100.
Picture this situation: you are driving in the middle of nowhere, heading to a very important meeting, when suddenly your tire goes flat and you realize you're screwed because you don't know how to change it! You have to make phone calls and wait for help, and in the mean time, you miss your meeting. Well, with this quick, step-by-step guide you can easily become a pro without any previous knowledge of an automobile. The following is the best guide for how to change a tire.
The very first thing you want to do is keep calm whenever the actual tire goes flat. Then, you need to pull off the road and out of the traffic flow (look for a level spot, it is unsafe to jack the car on an incline.) Next, you want to turn on your hazard lights. After that make sure you put the car in the "park" position if automatic transmission or put either first or reverse if standard transmission. Also, it's safer if you put heavy objects (such as rocks) in front of the front and back tires.
Gather your tools-you will need a jack, a spare tire (inflated properly) and a lug wrench (the star-shaped shiny tool that has holes for the lug nuts at the end of each point.) If you don't know where this tools are located, consult your owner's manual. If your vehicle has a hubcap over the tire, you want to remove that first. To do so you just pull it Off and away from the tire. Take the jack and place it behind the tire you are going to change (make sure you put it in a metallic surface, you don't want to ruin any plastic frame whenever you pump up the car.) Pump the jack up just a little bit so it supports but not lifts the car.
Use the lug wrench and loosen the nuts by turning counterclockwise. You don't want to take them off, only loosen them and break the resistance. By keeping the wheel on the ground you allow yourself to turn the nuts when you use the wrench and not turn the tire instead. If a nut is stuck you can use your body to turn the wrench (for instance making little jumps in it with your foot.) Once all of the nuts are loose, you can pump the car up using the jack. Remember to jack it up not only until you can pull the tire off, but until you'll be able to insert the spare one.
Finish removing the nuts and pull off the tire (it's better if you put your hands in the 3 O'clock and 9 O'clock position.) Insert the spare tire and push it all the way down. You now want to put the nuts on again and at first tighten them by hand and then by using the wrench (you only need to tight enough so the tire stays on its place while you lower the car.) Make sure that when you tight the nuts completely in the next step you do it in an evenly way (all the nuts at the same pressure.) A useful tip is going in a star shaped order (start with one, move to the opposite, and so on.) Jack the car down but don't let it rest only on the tire, instead leave the jack a little pumped as support. Finish tightening the nuts as tight as you can.
Finish pumping down the car and remove the jack. Get everything back to their proper location (including the flat tire below your car.) Recheck that you don't leave anything and that your tire is well fastened. You are good to go. Don't forget to get your tire repaired and to turn your hazard lights off. Have a nice meeting!
That's my essay. I really need a hundred ( I got a 60 on my last one and probably will get the same for the second one.) If I don't raise that grade things will get rerally bad. Thanks for your help guys!
By the way my teacher is nice but she DOES grade throughfully. The essay needs to be REALLY good to get a 100.
