How to Change to Winter Tires and Wheels on Your Car or Truck
Created on: 2019-02-15
This video shows you how to take the wheels off your car or truck, and how to install the new wheels with snow tires on them
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step 1 :Removing the Wheel
- Loosen the 22mm lug nuts from the four tires with the vehicle on the ground
- Raise the vehicle with a floor jack
- Secure the vehicle on jack stands
- Remove the lug nuts
- Pull off the wheels
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step 2 :Labeling the Old Tires
- Place a piece of tape inside the old tire's wheel
- Write down the old tire's location (ex. right front)
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step 3 :Reattaching the Wheel
- Slide the wheels into place
- Start the lug nuts by hand
- Tighten the lug nuts preliminarily
- Lower the vehicle partially to the ground
- Tighten the lug nuts to 94 foot-pounds in a crossing or star pattern
- Lower the vehicle completely
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step 4 :Checking the Tire Pressure
- Confirm the recommend psi on the stick in the door jamb
- Test the tire pressure with a tire pressure gauge
- Add about 1 psi more of air as necessary
- Test the psi again in cold weather
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step 5 :Resetting the Tire Pressure Monitors
- If the tires have tire pressure monitors, drive the vehicle to 28 mph for some time to reset the monitors or tire pressure light
Tools needed
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Torque Wrench
1/2 Inch Breaker Bar
Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years.
What's up, guys? I'm Andy from 1A Auto. Today, I'm going to talk to you about the benefits of having snow tires. We're going to be installing them on this vehicle. If you need parts for your vehicle, click the link in the description and head over to 1aauto.com.
We happen to live in New England, so we have some pretty bad weather here with snow and ice a lot of times during the winter season. So it's a good idea to have snow tires so that you have better traction in the snow.
To start, I'm going to loosen up the lug nuts on the old wheels. Just take a 22 millimeter socket and a breaker bar. All right. Now, that all those lug nuts are loose, I'm going to go around to the other three wheels and loosen those up.
Now that all the lug nuts are loose, I'm going to raise and support the vehicle. We're using a two post lift. If you're doing this at your house, you can use a jack and jack stands.
I'm going to take the lug nuts off. You just use the socket. Pull the wheel off.
These snow tires happen to be directional, so you can only install them on one side. The way these are rotating, these are only right side tires. So you can only put them on the right front or the right rear. And we happen to label them from last year. Right here is passenger side right front. So, this tire was actually on the right rear when we took it off. And then we're rotating it to the right front.
Now when you take your old tires and wheels off, you're going to want to mark where you want these to go during the spring season when you go to take your winter tires off, so you can install these in that particular location. So, this was on the right front. So if we want to rotate this, we could cross-rotate this to the back. We could put left rear or driver's side rear on this tire. And then with the other tires, wherever you want to put them, just label them. We could take this tape off and re-tape it on the tire. But, keep in mind you want to put it in the exact location where you want it for next year.
Now install the tire. Now do the same for the other three.
Now that we have all our tires installed and all the lug nuts on. We're gonna check the tire pressure. We check the door to see what the tire pressure is recommended for this vehicle and it's 35. So, take the cap off the valve stem. Take our tire inflator and gauge and this happens to be at 30. We're going to pump it up to 35. 37, went a little too high. Now in the winter, you can pump it up a little bit more because, you're going to lose some pressure because of the cold. It's a good idea to set the tire pressure little bit above. And then, once the vehicle is cold outside, you can check it again and adjust accordingly. We'll go around to the other three tires.
So these wheels happen to have tire pressure monitors. You're going to want to make sure if you have wheels and tires that you're swapping over, if the vehicle is equipped with tire pressure monitors that you have the correct sensors in there.
Now I'm going to lower the vehicle and we're going to torque the lug nuts.
Now I'm going to use a torque wrench and my 22 millimeter socket, and I'm going to torque these lug nuts to 94 foot pounds. I'm going to torque it in a star pattern--that way it tightens the wheel down evenly.
Just go around again. And I'll do the same for the other three.
All right so, we installed our tires with our rims and our new tire pressure monitors. So we're going to drive it. We want to drive it to about 28 miles per hour for a while. And just to reset the monitors and make sure everything is good.
If you have the tire pressure light on, you may have to drive it longer. Just give that a try, and you should be good.
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