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Welcome to Fuzz's Top Tips with Carole Nash. A series of videos designed to help
you use your classic car more successfully, safely and pleasurably
In this video I want to show you how to change a wheel
Now, if you're going to do this on the side of the road, then you need to make sure that
that you're in a really safe place
Lay-bys are not ideal, but they're better than the hard shoulder
The hard shoulder is so dangerous, don't even bother
If you're with Carole Nash insurance, use your breakdown cover
and get the recovery people to come out and change the tyre for you
But if you're doing it, what you need to make sure is that you're on as flat a surface as can be
A lot of driveways have a slope and this has got a slope
And what I've done here is, I've turned the car sideways, so it's not prone to rolling backwards
Although I have actually put some wooden chocks under the rear of the car
So that it can't roll backwards and can't roll forwards
The handbrake is on, so that is nice and secure
I've put the scissor jack into the cill area and before I jack it up, I want to make sure
is that the wheel nuts are not tight
That needs to be done while the car is still sitting on the ground
so it has it's weight on it. Otherwise, if I'd have tried to crack those wheel nuts when the car was raised
then the wheel would spin
Let's wind the jack up. I'm not going to attempt to take the wheel off until I've actually got this stand underneath the car
Okay, take the handle out for now. Right, I've cracked the wheel nut
so, hopefully those should all be nice and loose. I can now remove the front wheel safely
Sometimes there a little bit tight on the hub so a little bit of a knock, here we go
Here's the wheel off, and all I need to do is to rectify it. Get my spare wheel out and what you should do is
just get the wheel and note the position of the studs. So have one stud at the top, a bit like that
so that you know that you've got to have one of your stud holes at the top
just easier to locate the tyre because sometimes the wheel and your tyres can be quite heavy
so, we'll just take that up, put that on, and there we are
Hold that on. Get one nut on and a second one for good measure and you can let go
Put the other two nuts on and start them with your fingers. If you feel them go tight, you may have crossed the thread
If I try to tighten them now, of course the wheel's just going to spin
But what I will do, is as much as I can. Little tap like that just to make sure that we've got it located
There we are. Now I know that the wheel is actually on. It's not tightened up to the correct tension yet
I can now take the jack out and the stand of course
I don't have a torque wrench here and it's unlikely that you will have a torque wrench on the side of the road
but what's important is, at the soonest opportunity, you get a torque wrench on the wheel nuts
to make sure that they're torqued up to the correct torque
It's vitally important, especially with modern, alloy wheels
if you want to take it into a tyre shop just to make sure that you've actually done the job properly
that's no bad thing
There we go. We should be safe to carry on our journey now - brilliant!