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Can you change a wheel??

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  • #102
    we'llallhavetea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea


    be fairly fcuked if i didnt, them potholes, they come outta nowhere... i swear..


  • #103
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Yep sure can, have had to do it a couple of times.


  • #104
    Darraghgt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭Darraghgt4


    It should be included as a task during the driving test to be fair


  • #105
    Mr Keek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 497 ✭✭Mr Keek


    Girlfriend got a puncture, we were in an underground hotel carpark.

    She had the hubcaps tied on with cable ties and no way of cutting them, and absolutely no idea of changing the wheel. She of course makes a big deal of everything and whipped out the phone to call her rescue service.

    I had a little penknife on my own keys, so I cut the Cable Ties and got to work on changing the wheel for her. By the time she got connected to the breakdown service after being on hold for 10mins, I had the flat off, the new wheel on, the car lowered and was about tighten the lug nuts. Told her to hang up.

    ...the guy on the phone told her it would be 90mins before a van could come out..,she made them come out!!!

    After hanging up the phone she wanted me to put the flat wheel back on the car and let the "professional" do it. I said feck that, tightened the nuts and put everything back under the boot

    I wasn't waiting around to see the look and the breakdown guys face, so i went back to the hotel washed my hands and went for a pint. I left her waiting by the car for 90mins. Told her to call me when she got some sense, or after the breakdown guy came, which ever came first... She waited for the breakdown guy!

    When she called me, she said the Breakdown service guy came, he just have her the dirtiest look wondered why she didn't ring to cancel the call out, and when she explained she didn't trust me to change it, he gave her a bit of a telling off for wasting his time when he has people in need of actual assistance waiting.

    Birds!!!


  • #106
    Arielle Wailing Flannel
    Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Arielle Wailing Flannel


    I could on my last car, but the tyres on this one are way bigger and I haven't practised yet
    Also it doesnt come with a spare so I kinda need one of them first


  • #107
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,255 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    Yes I can..but I never get to practice as my car doesn't have a spare wheel! :)


  • #108
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Yep and change the oil and all the other fluids and filters. In my time I've swapped out brake pads, a clutch, rustproofing, a radiator, alarm install, a turbo, even a head gasket. All done in the driveway with good mates, jack, axle stands, the wrong tools and much head scratching, tea/coffee/beer and/or ciggies. Well rounded mechanically minded man, or a petrolhead you may think? Nope. I'm just a full on tightfisted cheapskate bastard and that is the full of it. How much for a service? GTFO ya chancer. :D Luckily I have good mates that are equally tightfisted and more talented than me and willing to dig in(goes for plumbing and electrical work around the houses too). Bleeding brakes can be a right C U Next Tuesday though.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #109
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,000 ✭✭✭mitosis


    It should be part of the driving test


  • #110
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Mr Keek wrote: »
    Girlfriend got a puncture, we were in an underground hotel carpark.

    She had the hubcaps tied on with cable ties and no way of cutting them, and absolutely no idea of changing the wheel. She of course makes a big deal of everything and whipped out the phone to call her rescue service.

    I had a little penknife on my own keys, so I cut the Cable Ties and got to work on changing the wheel for her. By the time she got connected to the breakdown service after being on hold for 10mins, I had the flat off, the new wheel on, the car lowered and was about tighten the lug nuts. Told her to hang up.

    ...the guy on the phone told her it would be 90mins before a van could come out..,she made them come out!!!

    After hanging up the phone she wanted me to put the flat wheel back on the car and let the "professional" do it. I said feck that, tightened the nuts and put everything back under the boot

    I wasn't waiting around to see the look and the breakdown guys face, so i went back to the hotel washed my hands and went for a pint. I left her waiting by the car for 90mins. Told her to call me when she got some sense, or after the breakdown guy came, which ever came first... She waited for the breakdown guy!

    When she called me, she said the Breakdown service guy came, he just have her the dirtiest look wondered why she didn't ring to cancel the call out, and when she explained she didn't trust me to change it, he gave her a bit of a telling off for wasting his time when he has people in need of actual assistance waiting.

    Birds!!!
    At that Mr K, I'd have had the Dear Joan letter/We need to talk speech already in play. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #111
    juniord
    Registered Users Posts: 240 ✭✭juniord


    i got a puncture on a wet night years ago, got the spare out and the jack but my wheel brace was missing , so i took a lump hammer and a small cold chisel and beat the wheel nuts off , changed the wheel and reversed the process to tighten , cost a set of wheel nuts but got the job done


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  • #112
    crockholm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,448 ✭✭✭crockholm


    Yup,by law here,you have to have studded tyres for the Winter,so every november and april I have to change all the shaggers (btw,back brake discs looking Mighty rusty,have to change them in april).

    Don't understand why peeps don't have jump leads with them the whole time either,and for those unsure-think racist: black=negative ;-)


  • #113
    akura
    Closed Accounts Posts: 497 ✭✭akura


    Yes I can. I had to take the four off last week, put on a different set of four and an hour later take them off and put the original four back on.


  • #114
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    7ofBrian wrote: »
    There is NO excuse for not knowing how. If you cant do it... you shouldn't have a licence. Unless there's a physical reason of course.

    I know how to do it. Only ever got a flat once in over 30 years of driving. In central London. At rush hour.






    Wasn't strong enough to loosen the nuts, and had to call out the AA. :(


  • #115
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    Wasn't strong enough to loosen the nuts, and had to call out the AA. :(
    somefeen wrote: »
    I've done it so many times that unless its been tightened to **** by a pneumatic gun I can usually do it in less than 5 minutes.
    Aineoil wrote: »
    I know how to change a tyre, but honestly I am not strong enough to undo the nuts on the wheel. My tyres are put on in the garage and they use a machine to tighten them.
    Leverage is what's needed here. Carry something like a length of steel pipe that fits over the tool for changing the nuts


  • #116
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Leverage is what's needed here. Carry something like a length of steel pipe that fits over the tool for changing the nuts

    Good point. Swapped out the wheelbrace in mother and sister's cars for a telescopic breaker bar and socket that fits the wheelnuts. Bar extends to about 3' in length - even my mother can use it with ease.


  • #117
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,934 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    I'm....... reasonably adept at it...


  • #118
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    I can indeed change a wheel

    along with all this


  • #119
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Yep, I can, you just reminded me OP that I need to get a longer wheel brace, last time I did it with the one supplied with the car, which is dinky, I nearly killed myself and got soaked, the longer ones apparently make it much easier.


  • #120
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Yeah I can, it's important to have a good jack as well, the ones that come with the car do be very poor quality I think.
    I gave €30 for one but it was worth it.

    It's a good thing to know how to jump start a car as well, the battery in my car was flat one morning before the xmas and I asked my neighbour to help me jump it.

    "Throw on the jump leads" I said to him assuming he knew how to do it but he went to put a minus with a plus, that wouldn't have ended well.


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  • #121
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 54,089 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    If you think you are not strong enough to undo the nuts then put the wrench on the nut and stand on it with all your weight.

    Pushing your weight down on it this way is easier to loosen it than pulling upwards.

    The hardest part of changing a wheel is preventing yourself getting covered in dirt :)


  • #122
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Deleted User wrote: »
    3 cars?? 2 girlfriends!!
    or two six wheeled cars. :pac:

    Yeah - the former - three cars. And some cars really are harder to change the tyres on than others. Especially the manufacturers that have their own proprietry key system without which you can not remove the wheel. It can be incredibly frustrating when such keys go missing. But you change 12 wheels twice a year and you get pretty adept at it in the end. It does not require half the time I actually put into it - most of which is nursing a beer while I work and having a relax.
    Mr Keek wrote: »
    he gave her a bit of a telling off for wasting his time when he has people in need of actual assistance waiting.

    I have had the unfortunate wait myself. I bought by BMW from a year that - I learned later - has a design fault where the turbo basically invariably dies. So my car died at one point down the country and I was waiting for quite some time for a rescue. (Thankfully being a known flaw in that year and model all the relevant parts got replaced for free).

    The guy who came out did say that he spends most of his time changing either tyres or light bulbs and that if people had a basic ability to do these things themselves his response time to everyone else would likely improve dramatically.

    Apperently not only do people not know how to change their bulbs if they go - they would not even know how to select a replacement were they to walk to the nearest garage to do so.

    He even told me of a few cases where he was called out to do an oil change. The bottle of oil was IN the car on some occasions. So he arrives - opens the bottle - pours it in - and leaves. That is his entire call out.

    I am with those that suggest that a basic proficiency in car maintenance should be part of the driving test.


  • #123
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Yes, I can. But... with modern radial tyres being as strong as they are, actual down-on-the-rim punctures are rarer than they were in Elder Days. I carry a can of Holts Tyre Weld, to get me home/to a garage in the (unlikely in my experience) event of such an occurrence. Tangentially, the miserable yokes manufacturers provide nowadays for undoing wheel-studs are pathetic. The traditional wheelbrace was bad enough, but these things - bleh! I carry a Bahco socket set in the boot, and I have a decent trolley-jack at home. In short, struggling with a weedy scissor-jack under a two-ton car at the side of the road in the piss-wet is something I diligently avoid! :D


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