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Changing tyre on 07 Kia ceed

  • 25-03-2017 12:32pm
    #1
    Kealyboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭


    Hi I'm scratching my head trying to change a flat tyre on my 07 Kia ceed. I have the car jacked up completely, 5 bolts removed but the the tyre/alloy will not budge, I'm pulling and dragging out of it but the hole car is just shaking. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


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  • #2
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Kick it at the bottom of the wheels, and then on the top, and then bottom, and then top, and so on.

    Keep kicking until wheel comes off.


  • #3
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    You're doing everything fine but the alloy has fused onto the hub. Happens with plenty of cars.

    There's a few ways to sort, but my favourite is to put all the nuts back on but only hand tight. Then drive over a pothole. Back into garage and remove wheel. The pothole should break the seal.


  • #4
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    corglass wrote: »

    There's a few ways to sort, but my favourite is to put all the nuts back on but only hand tight. Then drive over a pothole. Back into garage and remove wheel. The pothole should break the seal.

    :eek:

    On a flat tyre?


  • #5
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Try hitting the edge of the wheel (tyre part) with the spare wheel a few times and see if that budges it.


  • #6
    Del2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,102 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    corglass wrote: »
    You're doing everything fine but the alloy has fused onto the hub. Happens with plenty of cars.

    There's a few ways to sort, but my favourite is to put all the nuts back on but only hand tight. Then drive over a pothole. Back into garage and remove wheel. The pothole should break the seal.

    No need to drive over a pot hole, just do a few low speed turns.

    Or else get a big sledge hammer and give it a whack, use the spare wheel as a safety catch beside the jack.


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  • #7
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    A large sledge hammer or massive plank of wood and whack it at the bottom of the tyre/wheel. When you get it off clean the rear of the hub on the wheel and car with a wire brush and smear a little copper grease or regular grease on the hub face to prevent the same thing happening again.

    Also if I were you I'd remove the other wheels to ensure the same hasn't happened them as you don't want to be stuck at the side of the road with a puncture and unable to get the wheel off.

    I have had the same thing happen me on various cars but the worst ever was on an 08 ceed. I had an 8lb sledge and I put a piece of MDF board against the wheel and I beat it solidly for 5 minutes trying to get it off and it refused to budge. What I ended up doing was getting an old railway sleeper and putting it against the inside of the wheel and hammering the other end of the sleeper with the sledge hammer to knock the wheel off. It took a huge amount of effort to release it. I then had to do similar on the other 3 wheels although they weren't quite as bad. I doused them all in copper grease afterward to ensure it never happened again.


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