Car Tips
By Ashely Arts
How To Change A Tire
- First, make sure you have a tire iron, a jack, and a spare tire or a
doughnut.
- Loosen the lug nuts with the tire iron.
- Put the jack under the car and begin to jack the car up.
- Take the lug nuts off.
- Pull the flat tire off.
- Put the spare or doughnut tire on.
- Put the lug nuts back on loosely.
- Lower the car back to the ground.
- Tighten the lug nuts in a star shaped pattern.
- Don't go more than 50 mph or drive more than 60 miles on the spare or
doughnut tire.
- Drive to the nearest tire repair shop for real repair.
How to Jump Start a Car
- The second vehicle must have at least as much voltage as yours (most
will
be 12 volt.)
- Make sure vehicles arenUt touching.
- Set emergency brakes and put both vehicles in park (neutral for
standard
transmissions).
- Shut down all electrical accessories (radios, lights, etc.) and turn
off
both ignitions.
- Attach the orange or red cable to the positive battery terminal on the
car
that will start.
- Attach the black cable to the negative terminal to the car the runs.
(the
battery should say which terminal is positive and negative).
- Attach the orange and black cables the same way on the car.
- Start the car that has battery power first and let it warm up a bit.
- Then,
start the other car.
- If the car doesn't start, let it charge longer while giving the
running
car gas.
- Then, try to start the car again.
- After the dead car has run for several minutes, unclip the jumper
cables
in the reverse order that they were attached.
- Leave the revived car running for at least 30 minutes.
- Be careful not to leave your interior lights on or other things that
can
quickly drain the battery.