With all the potholes on Kamehameha Highway, it is hard to avoid a bumpy drive, and you can’t predict when your car will get a flat tire. No worries! With this easy step-by-step guide, you can change the flat tire and be right on your way again. You may even want to tear this page out of the magazine and store in your car!First, you need to make sure you always have a car jack, a wrench, and a spare tire in your car at all times to be able to change out your tire. It may be a good idea to practice so you can be ready for when you actually do get a flat tire.1. Turn on your hazard lights to signal to the other cars you are in a predicament and are slowing down. 2. Find a safe place to pull over, if you can. Pull as far as you can into the shoulder or the side of the road. Keep your hazard lights on so other cars can be aware of your presence and not run you over.3. Take the jack, wrench, and spare tire to the flat tire.4. Remove the hubcap and loosen the lug nuts counterclockwise with the wrench.5. Use the jack to lift the car about 6 inches off the ground. 6. Remove the lug nuts with wrench.7. Take off the tire and replace with spare tire. Push the tire all the way back until it can not go back any further.8. Put the lug nuts back and turn a few times. You want the lug nuts to fit just loosely enough to hold the tire in place.9. Lower the car back down to the ground, removing the jack once the tire is completely back on the ground.10. Tighten on the lug nuts. Tighten each lug nut 50 percent of the way and rotate between each lug nut from the opposite of the other until the lug nuts are secure. 11. Put the tools back in the car, and drive away safely.For more information visit www.dmv.org/how-to-guides/changing-tire
Writer: Jessica Everette
