Can you change a car wheel?

0ph0rce0 · 16-11-2012 11:08AM #1

So my brother of 26 just called me to ask if I know how to change the wheel on a car as he had a puncture.

**** me I laughed so loud. I mean in what day and age does a person not know how to change a wheel. I had to go down and change it for him.

So I put it to you, can you change a wheel on a car, and is it really that difficult.

Death and Taxes · 16-11-2012 11:13AM

Its simple, you just ring the AA and wait a few minutes!

16-11-2012 11:14AM

I hope you showed him how to do it instead of just doing it yourself

CardBordWindow · 16-11-2012 11:14AM

I learned how to change a tyre when I was about 13/14!
Never had to do it since, but I reckon I'd still be able to do it without much hassle.

0ph0rce0 · 16-11-2012 11:15AM

bluewolf wrote: »

I hope you showed him how to do it instead of just doing it yourself

That's where I have failed

kneemos · 16-11-2012 11:15AM

Disconnect the airbag,undo the nut.Simple.

Micky Dolenz · 16-11-2012 11:16AM

My driver takes care of such things.

Shenshen · 16-11-2012 11:16AM

0ph0rce0 wrote: »

So my brother of 26 just called me to ask if I know how to change the wheel on a car as he had a puncture.

**** me I laughed so loud. I mean in what day and age does a person not know how to change a wheel. I had to go down and change it for him.

So I put it to you, can you change a wheel on a car, and is it really that difficult.

Watched my husband do it some years back and helped, we were out on the road in the pouring rain with a serious puncture at the time.
I didn't drive back then, and nobody in my family had a car, so it was rather a new experience. But it sure as gravy isn't rocket science, so yes, I can do that.

flutterflye · 16-11-2012 11:17AM

No idea whatsoever, other than to get a man to do it for me (I'm not even messing!)

navandiver · 16-11-2012 11:18AM

I was shown how to change a tyre before i could buy a car!! Dad was very insistent that he wouldnt be called on to change tyres!

westendgirlie · 16-11-2012 11:18AM

Just because I know how to change a wheel, doesn't mean I'm gonna admit to it. Especially when there is a strapping young lad somewhere to do it for me instead

gobnaitolunacy · 16-11-2012 11:18AM

As easy as p*ssing in bed.

16-11-2012 11:20AM

Yes, unless it's one of these.

alwaysadub · 16-11-2012 11:22AM

I know how to change a tyre, however the last time I had a flat( only the 2nd time ever) the nuts were way too tight to loosen cos they had been tightened with one of them gun things at the garage. Nobody could loosen them, so had to go to the garage to get them to change it.

I learned how to change a tyre when I was learning how to drive, wallopped a kerb, got a flat. My instructor made me change the tyre so I'd know for future reference!

who the fug · 16-11-2012 11:23AM

FFS the mother taught me how to do that when I was about 9 ot 10, mind you she was fierce into child labour

ash23 · 16-11-2012 11:27AM

Last year one of the girls in work got a flat. She was heavily pregnant so obviously I wouldn't let her change it herself.
Well, I would have thought it was "obvious" but I couldn't believe the number of people in the car park who were walking past her and not offering to change it for her. Even when I stopped to help, only one of the lads from work came out to give a hand and between the two of us we sorted it.

I really hope it was that none of them knew how to change a flat as opposed to them all being totally ignorant f*ckers.

miamee · 16-11-2012 11:29AM

My dad has shown me a few times (while doing it for me, lol) but I have never actually had to do it myself. My dad is great at fixing things with my car but almost always makes me watch so that I know what he is doing and what went wrong and how he is going to fix it.

HeyThereDeliah · 16-11-2012 11:29AM

I know how to change a tyre but the nuts are way to tight to get of and lifting the spare from the boot is another ordeal.
I would just call someone it's easier.

who the fug · 16-11-2012 11:31AM

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

I know how to change a tyre but the nuts are way to tight to get of and lifting the spare from the boot is another ordeal.
I would just call someone it's easier.

Small length of scaffolding tube in boot, will make it easier to open the nuts

HeyThereDeliah · 16-11-2012 11:32AM

who the fug wrote: »

Small length of scaffolding tube in boot, will make it easier to open the nuts

Should I even ask ?

who the fug · 16-11-2012 11:37AM

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

Should I even ask ?

Put over tyre iron so you have more leverage to crack the nut, other tip is stand over the tyre fitters and make them but the wheel on by hand.

Driving all over Ireland in the sixties in her mini, made the mammy very practical

knucklehead6 · 16-11-2012 11:38AM

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

Should I even ask ?

It lengthens the handle of the wheel brace, thus making it easier to turn.

That's why all those wheel braces etc you can buy in the shops have telescopic handles.

it's all about reducing the amount of effort you need to apply.

kneemos · 16-11-2012 11:38AM

HeyThereDeliah wrote: »

Should I even ask ?

Don't fcuk with the nuts...they be crazy.

Conall Cernach · 16-11-2012 11:47AM

I used to work in tyre depot place when I was a teen and when we were changing lorry tyres we'd have to get a big 10' long pipe and put it over the wheel brace for extra leverage. Usually we'd have to jump up and down on it to have a hope of shifting a nut before we could use the air gun. Nuts should be put on with the air gun but the final tightening should be done by hand as you will then have a feel of how tight they are.

pcnoobie · 16-11-2012 11:49AM

no idea
im a man
and i drive

was never thought, never seen anyone do it, was never forced to do itmeself
but if it came to it that i had to do it because of a flat tyre then id give it a go, surely cant be difficult

phil1nj · 16-11-2012 11:53AM

I think the real question here is "does the car wheel really want to change?" . Otherwise we're all just pissing in the wind.

Penn · 16-11-2012 11:55AM

Yeah, not a problem. Except one time when I was younger. I was really tired coming home from shift work. Got a puncture, p*ssing rain, really dark.

Got out the wheel brace, put it on but the nut wouldn't move. Stood on the wheel brace (no scaffolding tube with me like I have now) and used my whole body weight.

SNAP.

I thought I'd broken the nut. Luckily, I had actually forgotten to take the hubcap off, and had been trying to take off one of the fake nuts on the hubcap instead of the actual tire nut.

16-11-2012 01:01PM

who the fug wrote: »

Small length of scaffolding tube in boot, will make it easier to open the nuts

Did that once and broke the bloody wrench! :mad:

who the fug · 16-11-2012 01:03PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Did that once and broke the bloody wrench! :mad:

Was it a Volvo by any chance, changing a wheel for a mate once and bent the volvo one by standing on it

16-11-2012 01:13PM

who the fug wrote: »

Was it a Volvo by any chance, changing a wheel for a mate once and bent the volvo one by standing on it

No, Triumph herald, the head of the wrench split where it goes over the nut.

0ph0rce0 · 16-11-2012 01:15PM

So 5 said Not a hope, and that was a few women who either said i'll get someone else or some good looking lad to do it.

Jesus my brother is a tool

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