How to Change a Tyre of Your Car

If you’re a car owner, you’ve probably encountered the situation where you need to change the tyre of your car yourself. Even if this situation arrives only very rarely, troubling thing is that, it can arrive randomly anytime. It doesn’t respect whether you’re going to attend a wedding, fetch a cousin from airport or, meet someone important at the hospital.

So, learning how to change tyre of your car is one of the easiest thing that you can do to attain the peace of mind while riding a car. It looks like changing tyre supposed to be a tough job, it’s for though who have the perfect balance between their body strength and movement but it’s actually not. Otherwise, the skill to change a flat tyre of car or a truck wouldn’t be be categorized among unskilled labor work.

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Below, I’ve told you the easiest way to change tyre of any car, whether big or small, whether the tyre is new, worn out or flat. Scroll down.

How to Change a Tyre on a Car

Firstly, park your vehicle to flat, levelled and traffic-free area where you can do the operation. Now, make sure, you have following things available in your car – a spare tyre, a lug wrench and a hydraulic jack. These 3 equipment are necessary. So, if you don’t have them available yet, make them available first then start the operation.

How to Change a Tyre Step by Step

Now, follow these steps to change the desired tire of your car –

Turn on hazard light, apply parking brake to your car and put something heavy in front of your tire to stop it from rolling or moving.

Take the hydraulic jack and place it under the recommended jacking position of your car. Check the manual or search online for your specific car model. You can’t place jack anywhere, it will damage the body of car. You need to put hydraulic press under the main frame (chassis) of your car. Only that can bear whole car’s weight.

Start increasing height of hydraulic press. Slowly but steadily, it will raise the car’s height (ground clearance) enough that the tyre you need to change will be up in the air.

Take the lug wrench and remove all the lug nuts of the required tyre. After that, remove the tyre.

Take the spare tyre, mount it on this tire’s position and tighten up the lug nuts using wrench.

Now, you’ve successfully changed the tyre of your car. Release the hydraulic jack pressure and put back the items in your car.

How to Change a Flat Tyre

Changing a flat tyre is actually easier than change a normal or worn out tyre because it will be lighter to handle and remove. However, few things change. So, you need to keep them in mind while handling flat tyre otherwise you might injure yourself.

If your tyre is totally flat, it might have also decreased the height of your car at that place, making the closest jacking position inaccessible. Though steps to change a flat tyre of a car is similar to above, here’s what changes –

As the closest jacking position is inaccessible to risky to use, it is recommended to choose a location further away to place the hydraulic jack.

Use the hydraulic jack to increase height of your car as high from the distant jacking location as you car.

After this, add some bricks or iron stool around the mid length of your car. We will transfer car’s weight to this middle point to release the hydraulic jack.

Now, release the hydraulic jack and as the car is raised, the desired jacking position is now accessible. Place the hydraulic jack here, raise it enough to secure the car and then finally, raise the flat tyre off the ground.

Now, you can follow the steps of above section about how to change a normal tyre. That is, use lug wrench to remove all the lug nuts. After that remove the tyre and replace it with a good tyre. Then, remove the iron stool or brick that you’ve put the middle and release your hydraulic press.

Little tricky, but not something you can’t do.

How Long Does it Take to Change a Tyre

If you follow the exact steps I’ve provided above, to change a normal tyre, it’s going to take around 15 mins, for a flat tyre, it’s going to take around 20 mins max. Any more than that means you’re doing something wrong or having hard time figuring it out. So, it’s better to just contact a car mechanic at this point. Even, if the car mechanic also charge rate according to the time it took, you now know long it should take to change the tyre so you can confront him if he tries to delay things just to extend time to add to your bill.

How to Change a Tyre without Jack

If you don’t have hydraulic jack then that raises stake quite a bit because it is an essential equipment. However, you can still change tyre without hydraulic jack available along with you. Here are few ways by which you can do so –

Ask other car owners or drivers to check if they can let you borrow their hydraulic jack for 15-20 mins.

Rent a hydraulic jack from nearby repair shop. They might ask for security money if they don’t know you.

Contact your friend of relative to bring it to you.

Contact your favorite car mechanic to bring it along.

If you’ve exhausted these options and now, you need to finally change your car’s tyre without jack, here’s the exact steps to do so. But, be very careful about your own and car’s safety.

[Steps] Changing A Tyre of Car without Jack

If you can take help from some people. Ask them to raise your car from bottom for few mins to place some bricks or stool at the boundary of your car to keep the desired tyre raised.

You can even use corner of a ramp to free up the desired tyre.

Once the desired tyre is free from car’s weight and up in the air, you can use the normal method to change the tyre of your car

Take the lug wrench and remove all the tire’s nut. That lets you take that tyre out. Replace it with good tyre and tighten up the lug nuts.

Now, make the car stable again by removing the support you’ve put on the boundary. Take help from nearby people, if needed.

How Much Does it Cost to Change a Tyre

The cost to change a tyre varies depending on your car and the situation or clause you’re in. Here are different cost estimates that will help you get an estimate –

Check if your insurance covers it. Though rare but some insurance providers such as AAA or insurance add-on cover tyre changing service. So, if that’s the case, it will be free of cost for you.

If you go to a car repair shop, the mechanic’s labor alone can cost you anywhere between $20 to $50. Repair cost excluded.

If you contacted roadside assistance on normal business hours, expect a bill of $75 to $125. If it’s weekend or holiday, expect the service to be 20% more expensive.

At the worst case, if you need to buy a new tyre and then change your tyre then depending on the brand, expect the total cost of operation to be around $150 to $200.

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How to Change a Tyre on A Rim

If you’re new, I don’t recommend you to do it by yourself because it’s a work of proper strength, technique and some experience with tyres already. If you still want to do it then here’s the easiest way to change the old tyre in a rim with new one-

Deflate the old tyre by removing the valve core.

There’s a tight seal that keeps the tyre and rim together. Break the bead. You need heavy clamp tool for that. Also, bead breaker tool is essential. Use proper technique to remove beads from one side of the tyre, then another.

Detach the old tyre now from the rim and prepare the new tyre.

Lubricate the beards of new tyre so that it will smoothly glides over the rim. You can use soap water for that.

Use tyre irons to guide both sides of beads onto the tyre rim.

Reinstall the value core, then inflate until you hear pop sound which confirms the successful install.

The tool, the techniques, the hard work it requires in usually unreasonable to put for normal people. So, try to avoid changing tyre on a rim by yourself. Giving it to car repair shop to do that will be reasonable at this point.

So finally, we arrive at the end of this article. Now, we’ve cleared the cloud and actually find out that changing tyre of a car, whether big or small is not as complicated as you thought initially. If this article helped, share it with the people in need.