How do you fix a flat tire!? HELP!?

Question

I dont even know where to start.

Answer 1

The best way, is to have someone show you. It easier to learn watching, than reading.
First you need to find your jack and look for instructions where it go. Normally the jack is placed under the car behind the front tire on frame and in front of the rear tire on frame. Look under and you see, there a metal strip that come down along the frame and it usually have a "Notch" where the jack go. First get the jack started and when it begin to raise the car, stop and use your "Lug" wrench to loosen the lug bolts on the tire. Keeping the Tire on the ground and the jack supporting the car, your Lug Nuts will loosen without the tire trying to turn on you. Usually there a small round cap in the center of the Wheel, like a little Hub cap and you remove it to see the Lug Nuts. Sometimes the Lug wrench have a little tool on the end to remove the hub cap, if not, use a flat end screw driver. Once the nuts are loose the raise the jack until the tire clear the ground. Take the nuts off and remove the tire. It best if you have some gloves, as a flat tire may have the metal cords sticking out and they cut you. Once the tire removed, put on the spare and tighten the nuts. READ, the nuts are tighten in a cross manner. Get the first snug then go across from it and snug the next, then back and forth snugging the nuts. Once they snug, lower the jack and when the tire first touch the ground stop and then tighten the nuts the rest of the way in your cross pattern. Then lower the jack and remove and replace the Hub Cap. Put everything in the Trunk and you ready to go.

Answer 2

A change or a fix, like a tire plug? Plugs are best left for someone in a tire shop. It usually only costs about $20. They also offer patches. As for a tire change, well...

FIRST, throw your parking brake on, then loosen the bolts with the wheels on the ground BEFORE you jack the car up. Otherwise, your car will be in the air and you will be fighting with the lugs, possibly making the car unstable on the jack.

THEN jack the car up, loosen the lugs the rest of the way and remove them from the wheel in question. There is almost always a small jack meant specifically for your car in the trunk, sometimes hidden behind a panel. There are exact instructions for your car in the Owners' Manual...this way you know where to safely put the jack under your car, typically a piece of the frame. Jack the car up, yoink off the old wheel and put the new one on.

Replace everything, hand tighten the lugs and lower the car. Make sure to remember to tighten them all of the way once you've lowered the car, and to do it in a criss-cross pattern, never the next lug over. This will ensure that the wheel is equally tight all around, and not tighter on one side or the other.

Answer 3

Depends if you are home or not, and the tools at your disposal.

Root around in the boot under the covers and you should find

a) a tool box of sorts - with a wheel wrench and car-jack
b) the spare tyre.

You have to get at the nuts holding the flat tire in place, so you may need to prize off any plastic cover on the wheel to get at them.

Using a wrench, you have to loosen the nuts on the wheel before trying to raise the wheel off the road with the car jack

Cars often have a 'jacking point' somewhere along the rim near the flat tyre to put the car jack under to raise it. DO NOT MOVE UNDERNEATH A CAR WHICH IS JACKED UP!

Once the flat tyre has been jacked up, remove the wheel nuts and take the tyre off the car - replace with the spare.

Reverse the above instructions to put the spare on, then take the flat to a car tyre place to repair it - they will put the repaired tyre back on for you.

Answer 4

Get your jack out and place it under the frame close to where the flat is. Jack car up to where the flat is off the ground. Get your tire iron out and take off the lug nuts. Remove the flat tire and replace it with the spare. Go to a tire store and have them repair the flat tire , or just buy a new tire.

Answer 5

You could do what lexusry said, but such a repair will void your tire warranty as no tire manufacturer in the known universe considers this an acceptable repair.

Tires need to be repaired from the inside with a patch or patch-plug. This can only be done at a tire shop with the proper tools.

Answer 6

you purchase a tire repair kit at the part store.feel tire with air. find out where the leak is on the tire by spraying a water bottle mix dish washer soap. sometime you can see a nail or screw on it. remove the object the way it come out. take a repair kit tool and insert it the same way the object that it was coming out. insert the tire plug from the repair kit to the device and insert it to the tire.about half way,pull the device out and cut the excess. fill tire with air and check for leak.no leak mean you r done.

Answer 7

jackup the car first, then take off the lug nuts...take off tire, replace w/spare tire, then place your lug nuts back on the tire, tighten them real good so it doesn't come loose, then let down your car, check the lug nuts & re-tighten the lugnuts and your good to go