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Your Guide to Changing Car Tyres Yourself

There are three ways you can replace your car tyres, including visiting a garage, mobile tyre fitting, and having them replaced at your home. In all, we see how we replace a car tyre at home.

In today's fast-paced generation, everyone is busy with their work. Every minute is like money no one wants to save. The best way to save money is to save time. Change your tyre yourself at home. In this blog, we see the steps to replace tyres and different aspects. We need to check before buying any tyres.   

  

How to change your car tyres at home? 

Follow these steps to change your Tyres London, including equipment requirements, unmount your tyres, mount your tyres, and test your tyre fitting before driving.  

Gathering all equipment and protective wear: - 

You must gather all the equipment which are required for the replacement of your car, including a spare tyre, lug wrench, jack, stands, air compressor, and basic equipment, like pliers. Before starting any work, you must wear all the safety equipment, such as PPE kits, gloves, goggles, helmets and many other equipment which helps to save you from harm.   

Park your vehicle on a plain surface: -  

You need to park your vehicle on a plain surface for better stability and balance of the car. You must pull out the handbrake at the highest level. Check the stability by going back and forth. After the confirmation, you put the jack under the car where it has a manufacturing point, which you set for better weight distribution. Slowly raise the height of the jack with the help of the manual crank. When your jack is raised to the appropriate height, then you should fit the stand on it for better stability.  

Unmount your car tyres from the wheel: -  

After setting all the jacks and stands, open all the lug nuts on the wheel with the help of a lug wrench. After that, pull out the car tyre from the wheel straight toward your side.  

Mount new tyres: -    

Clean the surface of the wheel and mount a spare tyre on the wheel. and close all the lug nuts. Closed all these tightly. Inflate your Tyres Chertsey. Remove all the material that is scattered throughout, because it is harmful to us. 

  

What are the different aspects we need to check before buying any tyres? 

Some of the aspects we need to check before buying any tyre, including air pressure, damaged parts, cut parts, properties, brands, tyre types and others. All these things are given below: -  

Basic properties: -  

You need to match all the properties of tyres, including speed rating, load index, tread pattern, size and other properties listed on the old tyres' sidewall. You can match them and buy your new tyres.  

Tyre types: -  

Before buying any tyres, you need to check what tyres are required for your car, as all tyres are made for different conditions and terrains, like summer, winter, all-season, 4x4 and performance ones. You can match them before buying any type of tyres.   

Manufacturing date: -  

It is essential to check the manufacturing date before buying the tyres. It is written in code ways, including week and year, like 2421, which means 244 weeks in 2021.  

Rating and reviews: - reviews and ratings of your car help to find the tyres for your car, and you can check the reviews of any product on different websites. It has positive and negative reviews, which are also feedback for any product. If any product has a good review, then it will be good. 

Compare price and brand: -  

You need to compare the prices of tyres on different websites. Suppose they provide similar performance properties at an affordable price. Then you can buy these.  

   

What are the different types of seasonal tyres available on the market?  

There are mainly three types of tyres available on the market: summer, winter, and all-season. 

  

Why are 4x4 tyres unique? 

4x4 tyres are made with rigid rubber that is flexible in rough terrains, like mountains, forests, mud and others. It has a long and deep tread pattern, which provides better traction and grip on the road. It has a wide longitudinal groove block which helps to improve, including braking and fuel efficiency. It has three types of 4x4 tyres present in the market, including mud-terrains (M/T), All-terrains (A/T), and highway terrains (H/T). 

  

What are the different benefits of using better tyres? 

The different types of benefits of using better tyres are as follows: -  

Improve performance.  

Enhance safety 

Increase fuel and braking performance.  

Comfort and durability 

Higher resale value.  

  

Conclusion: -  

There are three ways you can replace your car tyres, including visiting a garage, mobile tyre fitting, and having them replaced at your home. In all, we see how we replace a car tyre at home. These are some steps, like gathering all equipment and safety needs, parking your vehicle on a plain surface, unmounting your tyres, mounting your tyres on the wheel and testing before riding. After that, we see the different aspects like size, tread pattern, brands, and many other properties of tyres.  We see the various seasonal tyres, including summer, winter, and all-season tyres. Lastly, see the benefits of using better tyres in our car, like comfort, performance, safety and efficiency.