HOW TO CHANGE A FLAT
So what do you think the percentage of people who can’t change their own spare tire??? I would assume the percentage of girls is higher than of guyss…not to be sexist, but just my common sense and society tells me that girls wouldn’t bother with flat tires. BUT what if you were stuck on the side on the highway, say the I-5, where cellphones might not work to call AAA. Then what? Wait for a stranger to pull over? YEAH RIGHT, THIS IS AMERICA, people don’t even stop to say hi. Onstar maybe? Well what if you’re rollin in a Honda Accord like most of my Asian homies? So wait til a tow truck comes to charge you a few hundred bucks OR change it yourself.
Every car comes with a spare tire in the trunk, I HOPE, and includes a jack (the thing that lifts your car up) and a wrench bar to take on and off the lug nuts. So here’s Arowana’s step by step on how to change a tire. READY??
1. How do you know if you have a flat? Well, if its a blow out, you’ll know. A normal flat, you’ll feel a drag while driving or just let off the gas while driving and if it goes from 50mph to like 25 mph extremely fast, then its a flat. Or my favorite, drivers pointing at you like some weirdo, but they’re really pointing at your flat, idiot!
2. Make sure you have two hands on the wheel. (a blow out could cause a spin out but if you’re a good driver, you’ll catch it fast) Pull over to the side as far as possible. DO NOT pull over on a hill. Flat grounds is a MUST!
3. Pull out your spare tire and equipment. If you don’t know exactly where that is (sometimes on trucks, its under the bed or in the hood) then check your car manual. Make sure you have everything you need. And hopefully your spare isn’t flat either.
4. Locate underneath the car the right spot to put your jack under. You want to jack up the car on the car’s frame, the strongest and safest part of the car. Start expanding the jack but only til the tension is enough where you aren’t lifting the car yet.
5. Loosen the nuts of the tire. This could be the hardest part since the lug nuts are meant to be on extremely tight. Sometimes I have to stand on the wrench or even yell at the top of my lungs to loosen them. For some reason, yelling gives me more strength.
6. Once the lug nuts are loose, then finish jacking up the car. Jack it high enough where the tire has a clearance to be pulled off.
7. Pull off the tire, and replace it with the spare aka DONUT. Tighten them hand tight as tight as possible. Even do a few turns with the lug wrench, but don’t start giving it your all mighty yet.
8. Lower the jack, then use the lug wrench to tighten them til your lungs get sore, as my cousin JayZ once said. It’s important to tighten the lugs in a star technique, meaning tighten one every other lug in order to correctly have a tire on good.
9. Then quickly head to either a gas station or tire place. Most spares can drive for a bit at low speeds but don’t chance it if you don’t have to. Normal flat tire can actually run another 200 miles but you also have a chance of damaging your rims. But most importantly, make sure you practice so you can impress that girl, Captain Sava.
Here’s some clips of when my tire BLEW OUT on the way home to SF recently. Dennis took out the new Aiptek camera. Them trucks got close!!!
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dude, you guys are fkn crazy!