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Changing the wheel will require in addition, of course, to a spare with a properly inflated tire a jack and a four-way wrench (to loosen the nuts). Work gloves provide protection from injury. Proceed as follows: - First shift into park and pull the emergency brake.
- Position the jack under the car close to the damaged tire and jack the vehicle up slightly, but not so high that the wheel is no longer touching the ground.
- Cautiously remove the wheel trim cap from the rim and stow it in the trunk.
- Working crosswise, loosen the nuts until they can be turned easily (apply body weight by placing your foot on the wrench).
- Jack the car up until the wheel is suspended in the air.
- Remove the nuts from the bolts and take the wheel off the axle.
- Place the spare or emergency wheel on the axle and loosely screw the nuts back on the bolts.
- Jack the car back down to the ground.
- Tighten the nuts, using the wrench and proceeding in circular fashion, making one revolution each time until the nuts are all uniformly tight.
- Never drive faster than 80 km/h with a spare or emergency wheel!
Be extra careful when changing a tire on the traffic side of the vehicle. Keep your eye on approaching traffic at all times. Before continuing your trip, fetch the triangular reflector, carrying it to the car on your back so that it is clearly visible to approaching traffic the whole time. Do not remove the warning vest until all work and clean-up activities outside the vehicle have been completed. If you can't handle the emergency on your own, one of the orange-colored emergency call boxes located along the highway can be used to summon help. These days more than fifty percent of the calls to the German Automobile Association are made on cell phones, however. Experts expect this to rise to seventy to eighty percent in the near future. Restore your mobility quickly and reliably: With the ContiComfortKit, Continental is offering a new type of handy breakdown set.
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