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    Cars and Breaking down

    Came out of the station after work tonight and got in my car thinking 'must start packing for SP' as I am heading off tomorrow night from work.

    Drove 100 yards down the road only to find I'd got a flat tyre (front Offside)

    I am a girl, I started crying, pulled over onto Double yellow lines and walked the long walk home still sobbing. Got home to find flat mate had gone out which I find extremely inconsiderate due to my predicament.

    Can someone please explain how to change a tyre on a Toyota Yaris. Can you also tell me where I might find the spare and the tools to do it

    Yes I know I'm stupid, normally I would call a friend but they're all miles away

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    Re: Cars and Breaking down

    Sit by the side of the car, looking helpless, and wait for a man to stop and do it for you?

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    Quote Originally Posted by straycat264 View Post
    Sit by the side of the car, looking helpless, and wait for a man to stop and do it for you?
    Really fcuking helpful thank you

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    Quote Originally Posted by WittyBird View Post
    Really fcuking helpful thank you
    You're very welcome. Seriously, I'd offer help if I'd ever changed a wheel, but I've been lucky on that score to date, and have yet to have a flat tyre...

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    check in the boot, under the floor, that's usually where the spare tyre and tools are kept. But sometimes the spare wheel is under the car at the back.

    find the socket thing and loosen "a little bit" the wheel nuts on the punctured tyre, it's handy to use the cars weight to help with this bit.

    Then find the wheel jack and find the bit to put it into under the car, should be in the manual exactly where is is

    remove the wheel nuts, then the wheel, put on the spare - make sure it's pushed on as far back as possible and lined up with the bolts evenly and start tightening the nuts again as much as you can

    Once the new wheel is on lower the car, remove the jack, and give the wheel nuts a last tighten up

    Hope that helps

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    Helpful hint for next time: join the AA (they'll come and rescue you if you're not a member but they'll join you up first then charge you a whopping great excess to rescue you at the same time)

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    If you have alloy wheels there will probably be a "locking" wheelnut on each wheel. You, or whoever you bribe to help, will need whatever was provided to unlock these. The main tools are sometimes under the passenger seat and the spare wheel may only be of the skinny "get you home" type.

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    Re: Cars and Breaking down

    Quote Originally Posted by pmjd View Post
    [snip helpful stuff}
    Thank you

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    Helpful hint for next time: join the AA

    Yes I am about to bottle hindsight and sell it
    Joining the AA has been on my 'to do' list for months

    Quote Originally Posted by Whitebeard View Post
    spare wheel may only be of the skinny "get you home" type.
    Yes I believe I heard that term when I was being sold the car

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    Re: Cars and Breaking down

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    Helpful hint for next time: join the AA ..........
    they have changed my flat tyre once and got me petrol when I have run out why get your hands dirty when there is someone else to do it

    Would never buy a car without RAC or AA etc., comes with the territory

    OR you could go to night school and learn car maintenance like my mate Shirley did (you will possibly be the only female on the course too )
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    Honey, sounds like a bad afternoon for you! Poor you!

    Hope you have managed to get it sorted now!

    I always thought how lucky I was that I didn't have to go through the whole car maintenance things that people learning to drive at present seem to have to go through. Thinking about it though, perhaps we dipped out there.

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    Re: Cars and Breaking down

    Witty, when you've sorted your tyre try not to drive too far on it. I know that sounds silly, but I had a mate change my tyre just to get me home once and then I took it to a garage... it was scary how much tighter they made the wheel nuts... so it's better to get a professional to look at it asap. Us girls aren't strong enough (and don't have the right heavy-duty tools) for this kind of job.

    Good luck with it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sparkles View Post
    Witty, when you've sorted your tyre try not to drive too far on it. I know that sounds silly, but I had a mate change my tyre just to get me home once and then I took it to a garage... it was scary how much tighter they made the wheel nuts... so it's better to get a professional to look at it asap. Us girls aren't strong enough (and don't have the right heavy-duty tools) for this kind of job.

    Good luck with it
    Tight nuts are good.

    But seriously: it's very easy to overtighten wheel nuts - this is extremely bad. For instance, don't ever stand on the end of the spanner and jump up and down. Wheelnut torques should be around the 100Nm mark - that's a force of around about the weight of 30kg applied at one foot distance - the length of your average wheel nut spanner. The weight of a typical person standing on the end of the spanner overtorques the nut by 100%. Jumping up and down will multiply that by 10. This is a desperately bad thing to do. Never use a wheel-spanner extension when tightening the wheel-nuts for the same reason.

    You can however jump up and down on the spanner to loosen the nut while taking the wheel off.

    You should make sure that you tighten the nuts in the right order though - 1, then 3, then 2, then 4 for a four-nut wheel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
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    You should make sure that you tighten the nuts in the right order though - 1, then 3, then 2, then 4 for a four-nut wheel.
    Oh
    I only thought there were 2

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    Quote Originally Posted by WittyBird View Post
    Oh
    I only thought there were 2
    No - two nuts on a bloke, four on a four-nut car wheel.

    It's unlike you to make that mistake, Witty? I put it down to stress.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    No - two nuts on a bloke, four on a four-nut car wheel.

    It's unlike you to make that mistake, Witty? I put it down to stress.
    I am very stressed I have been shouting alot today so may end up going to the Wild west party as a little hoarse

    Luckily thanks to great friends my car now has a skinny wheel on it and parked outside my flat (no pun intended)

    A friend is picking the car up tomorrow and taking it to have a proper tyre put on


    I love my friends Thank you all for your help

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