How to Change Your Tires

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How to Change Your Tires

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How to change your tires!!

Supplies

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First these are the tools you will need

impact, proper size socket, torque wrench, floorjack, jackstands, and specialty lock socket if needed

Jacking Up Vehicle and Loosening Lugnuts

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break your lugnuts loose but keep the on tight just to make it easier for you to remove lugnuts when the vehicle is in the air

Safe Jack Point

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find a safe jack point underneath your vehicle and jack up your vehicle to where the tire you are removing is just off of the ground and slide your jackstands under to ensure the vehicle won't fall


Taking Wheel Off

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now that your lugnuts are already loose you can take them fully off and remove the wheel make sure to put your lugnuts all together so none of them get lost

Putting Wheel Back On

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now that your tire is off you can grab the new one you want to put on the vehicle. Make sure the tire is the correct way it will be indicated on the tire now line it up with your wheel studs and put the tire on

Putting Lug Nuts Back On

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hand thread the lugnuts on a little to make sure not to cross thread your lugnuts


Tighten Lug Nuts

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once your lugnuts are hand tight onto your wheel studs you can go ahead and tighten them with your impact make sure to do it in a star like pattern or you can think about it as directly across from one another


Tighten Them in a Star Pattern

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Make sure to use a pattern like this

Drop Your Vehicle Back Down

now you can pull out your jackstands and drop your vehicle back onto the ground

Torque Lug Nuts to Spec

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Now you must figure out the torque spec for your wheels and set your torque wrench to the proper torque and than tighten your lug nuts until the wrench clicks

that is all now repeat for other tires