Change car tires correctly - how it works

If you don't want to spend money on the workshop, you can simply change the tires on your car yourself. We'll show you how to do it step by step.

Instructions: Change car tires correctly

First park the car on a level surface and apply the handbrake so that the vehicle cannot roll away.

• If necessary, remove all hub caps from the car to access the wheel nuts. Some bikes are secured with a rim lock, for which you have an additional key.
• Take the cross wrench at hand and loosen all nuts from the first tire. The nuts are only loosened, not completely unscrewed.
• Put the jack on and pump the car up until the tire is in the air and a finger fits between the tire and the ground.
• Important: You can only use the jack at the prescribed places. Some of these are marked on the outside of the body and are also in the manual.
• Now you can completely loosen the wheel nuts. Hold the tire with one hand so that it does not fall off.
• Then carefully remove the tire and label it. For example, the letters "VR" stand for "front right".
• Now take the new tire at hand. Note that right and left tires stay on the same side for a lifetime. If the front tires of a front-wheel drive car are more worn than the rear tires, you can also mount the rear tires at the front and vice versa. Only left and right may not be interchanged.
• Put on the new tire and screw in all wheel nuts by hand. Then turn the nuts hand-tight with the cross wrench.
• Lower the jack carefully (!) And slowly. Take the torque wrench on hand and tighten all wheel nuts.
• You have to set the Newton meters correctly on the torque wrench. You can find out how many Newton meters are required for your car in the manual or via a short Google search.
• Important: Always tighten the individual wheel nuts crosswise. This means that you do not tighten the wheel nuts one after the other in a clockwise direction, but always choose the opposite nut.
• The first wheel has now been changed. Repeat these steps for all other tires.
• After 50 km, the bikes can loosen up again. After this stretch, you should retighten all the wheel nuts with the torque wrench.

In the next practical tip, we will explain when all-season tires make sense.