How to change a tire on a Honda Accord.
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Changing a Tire on a Honda Accord
Changing a tire can be done safely in a short time when you understand the process,
and know where the tire and tools are located. A tire may have to be changed along side
the road because of a flat tire, or at home when you want to exchange summer
or winter tires. This article provides instructions to remove the winter tires mounted on rims
and replace with summer tires mounted on rims, or vise versa.
Find a level spot to work, if there is a slight incline, block the tires on the low side,
to keep the car from rolling. Place the car in park and pull the emergency brake.
Open the trunk, on the right hand side there is a plastic panel, turn the knob, one quarter
of a turn and the panel will open, remove the panel.
The car jack is located inside the panel. Turn the end of the jack screw eyelet counter-clockwise,
this will cause the jack to loosen and be removable.
Inside of trunk of a Honda Accord
Spare tire and tools
Lift the panel on the bottom of the trunk, located above the spare tire, where you find the spare tire
and tools that are needed to loosen the wheel nuts, and work the jack. Remove the spare tire and tool
pouch.
Place a piece of cardboard or equivalent near the work area to kneel on.
With the tire iron, loosen slightly, all the wheel nuts on the wheel that you are
working on, while the tire still rests on the ground.
Under the car on the frame of the car, about a foot in from the wheel, is an extended
tab of metal about three inches long extending downward about half an inch.
Place the jack beneath this tab. With the jack beneath the metal tabs, crank the jack
by hand until the jack is snug between the car and ground, then use the crank assembly,
(the tire iron connected to the metal part to form a crank).
Crank clockwise to raise the car high enough to clear the wheel from the ground.
Lossen all the wheel nuts on the wheel with the tire iron, and finish removing the nuts by hand.
Place the nuts in a neat pile where they are out of the way.
Honda Accord wheel jack in the correct location
Tire iron and jack crank assembly
Lift the winter tire off the wheel studs, and place the summer tire onto the wheel studs.
Start tightening all the wheel nuts by hand, until snug. Crank the jack anti-clockwise to
lower the car, until the tire just touches the ground. Tighten slightly more with the tire iron.
Crank the wheel all the way down and remove the jack. With the short tire iron tighten
all the wheel nuts as tight as you can.
Tighten in a cross hatch fashion, see top picture for tightening sequence.
Place the jack and tools back in the trunk where you got them. Turn the jack eyelet
Replace the jack cover, turn knob one quarter turn to secure. Place tool pouch in spare
tire wheel well, and close cover over wheel.
Tip
If you need to change a tire on the road, drive slow and pull off to a safe location.
It is very dangerous to park on a busy road, a car coming behind may not realize
you are parked and ram into the back of your car. Pull off as far as you can and Use
your 4 way flashers.
*** Tires rim retaining nuts need to be retightened (torqued) after driving the first 100 km.
The nuts may work loose and fall off, the tire may leave the vehicle.
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