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You can easily change your car’s tyres yourself and save money for the garage. We will show you step by step how to do it.
Instruction: Change your car tyres properly
First park the car on a flat surface and apply the handbrake to prevent the vehicle from rolling away.
- Remove all hub caps from the car, if necessary, to access the wheel nuts. Some wheels are secured with a rim lock, for which you have an extra key.
- Take the cross spanner and loosen all the nuts from the first tyre. The nuts are only loosened, not completely unscrewed.
- Apply the jack and pump the car up until the tyre is floating in the air and a finger fits between the tyre and the ground.
- Important: You may only use the jack in the prescribed places. These are partly marked on the outside of the body and are also stated in the manual.
- Now you can loosen the wheel nuts completely. While doing so, still hold the tyre with one hand so that it does not fall off.
- Then carefully remove the tyre and label it. The letters “VR”, for example, stand for “front right”.
- Now pick up the new tyre. Note that right and left tyres stay on the same side for life. If the front tyres on a front-wheel drive car are more worn than the rear tyres, you can fit the rear tyres on the front and vice versa. Only left and right must not be swapped.
- Fit the new tyre and screw in all wheel nuts by hand. Then hand-tighten the nuts with the Phillips spanner.
- Lower the jack carefully (!) and slowly. Take the torque spanner and tighten all the wheel nuts.
- You must set the Newton metres correctly on the torque spanner. You can find out how many newton metres are necessary for your car in the manual or by doing a quick Google search.
- Important: Always tighten the individual wheel nuts crosswise. This means that you do not tighten the wheel nuts clockwise one after the other in turn, but always select the opposite nut.
- The first wheel is now changed. Repeat these steps for all other tyres.
- After 50 km, the wheels may become a little loose again. After this stretch, you should retighten all wheel nuts with the torque spanner.
