1.7.13. Replacement of a wheel

Install the car on the flat, strong and nonslipping platform.

Turn on the alarm light system, to tighten the parking brake, on the automatic transmission install the switching lever in position of the parking P, on the mechanical transmission or Easytronic include the 1st transfer or a backing.

You will expose a sign of an emergency stop according to requirements of the law.

Get a spare wheel from a luggage carrier or from under a car floor.

Before raising of the car bring forward wheels into direct situation.

It is strictly forbidden to change several wheels at the same time.

Block the wheel located on diagonal by replaced, having enclosed before and behind a wheel wedges or similar objects.

At soft soil enclose a strong lining with a maximum thickness of 1 cm under a jack.

NOTE Use of thicker linings can lead to damage of a jack and the car. In the lifted car there should not be people or animals. Do not climb under the car lifted by a jack. Do not start the engine at the lifted car.

Rasfiksiruyte a wheel cap the screw-driver also take off a cap. For this purpose insert the screw-driver into side dredging of a cap of a wheel.

Take off a wheel cap by means of a hook.

On other execution the cap of a wheel is removed together with wheel bolts.

On light-alloy wheels: wring out a wheel cap by means of the screw-driver and take off a cap, having placed for this purpose the screw-driver in side dredging of a cap.

Uncover bolts wheel bolts.

On light-alloy wheels with anticreeping protection: turn off and take off a cap by means of the special key which is available in a set of tools.

Turn off wheel bolts by means of a face wrench for wheel bolts, at the same time insert a key against the stop.

Marks in the lower edge of a body specify places for installation of a jack under the car bottom.

On some executions of cars of an installation site are closed by hatches – extend hatches outside.

Before installation of a jack manually establish necessary height. Establish a shoulder of a jack in front (or behind) so that capture of a jack (it is specified by an arrow in the drawing) covered a vertical edge and entered a cut in it.

At rotation of the handle you watch that the edge of a thrust bearing of a jack was motionless on the earth vertically under the place of capture.

If in the course of rise the thrust bearing appears not strictly under an installation point, immediately carefully lower the car and repeat the procedure of installation of a jack.

Rotation of the handle lift the car.

Unscrew screws of a wheel and put them so that the carving did not become soiled.

On other execution the cap of a wheel is removed together with wheel bolts.

Replace a wheel.

Twist bolts of a wheel and to slightly tighten them, at the same time insert a face wrench against the stop.

On other execution establish a wheel cap in the beginning, and then twirl wheel bolts.

Lower the car.

Densely tighten wheel bolts cross-wise, at the same time insert a face wrench against the stop.

Before installation of a cover of a wheel clear a wheel on the site of tightening holders. The valve symbol from the back party of a cover of a wheel has to indicate the wheel valve.

Establish and record коппак or a cover of a wheel and, respectively, a cover of bolts of a wheel.

On light-alloy wheels establish and record a wheel cap, at the same time insert a pin on a reverse side of a cap into the corresponding opening in a wheel.

On light-alloy wheels with anticreeping protection establish a wheel cap. Insert and twirl the device of anticreeping protection.

Close a cover a jack installation site on the car bottom. Remove the removed wheel. Remove the tool and a sign of an emergency stop.

Check pressure in tires of the established wheel, if necessary modify.

By means of a dynamometer key check the moment of an inhaling of bolts of a wheel on the established wheel, if necessary modify it.

Replace the replaced defective tire.

At the first opportunity replace the established emergency wheel with normal.