Can you change a flat tire?

[OUCaptain]

Wow. There are at least 15 pathetic excuses for men that have read the thread and voted. I wonder how many more man card revokees were too ashamed to vote.

 

[IronWing]

I fill them with fix-a-flat first just to piss off the guys at the tire shop.

 

[RESmonkey]

I don't drive/have my own car/etc. When I get a car, I'll figure it out.

 

[IronWing]

The problem with a flat tire is that the flat side faces the pavement so the tire doesn't roll. Simply jack up the car, rotate the tire so the round part is on the bottom, drop the jack, and you're on your way!

 

[EMPshockwave82]

Originally posted by: lifeobry
Who can't change a flat tire?

1. Jack up car
2. Remove flat tire
3. Put on new tire
4. Lower car
5. Profit

It's not exactly rocket science..

.5. Loosen but do not remove lug nuts
1. Jack up car
2. Remove flat tire
3. Put on new tire
4. Lower car
5. Profit

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: EMPshockwave82

Originally posted by: lifeobry
Who can't change a flat tire?

1. Jack up car
2. Remove flat tire
3. Put on new tire
4. Lower car
5. Profit

It's not exactly rocket science..

.25 Set parking brake
.5. Loosen but do not remove lug nuts
1. Jack up car
2. Remove flat tire
3. Put on new tire
4. Lower car
5. Profit

 

[imported_Champ]

I have never changed a flat tire, but I've rotated and put on winter tires before

 

[skyking]

While I was in the UK I replaced the front brake pads on our host's Mercedes wagon, and checked the SL320 brakes. Let me tell you I would never own a Benz now. Both had bolts, which means you don't just toss the wheel up on the studs and install the nuts. Oh no, you fiddlefumble around getting things lined up, and hold the wheel in place while threading in a bolt. It would be hard enough to keep your clothes clean doing this, but the SL320 had a !#%!$^%%%% SPACER on there, from the factory. Now you get to line all that up and get a bolt through it.
It was as retarded a thing as I have ever encountered on an automobile.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Seriously?

Of course I can change a tire. Hell, I even mount and balance my own motorcycle tires with hand tools (tire levers).


The last time I had a flat, I was at the post office and I was pulling the tire off my car when some old dude came up and looked at what I was doing. He then said, "I think your tire is flat." I'm pretty sure he was being completely serious.

I looked at him, I looked at the tire, and I looked at the lug nut wrench in my hand... I considered using it to put him out of his misery.