How to change your Flat Tire. A step by step guide of how to remove the flat tire and replacing it with the spare. This is a basic guide for people who really don't have a clue of how to change one.

This guide was taking from edmunds but was shortened down into steps for an easier reading.

Jack up the car

1. Get out your spare tire, jack & your tire iron.

2. Check the air pressure in the spare tire & then to remove the flat tire.

3. Make sure the car is in gear. (Or "park" if it's automatic) & the emergency brake is on.

4. The car should be on a flat pavement, and u shouldn't try to change the tire if it's on a slope or sitting on the dirt.

5. Putting a brick under the opposite tire to the flat tire is a good idea to. This makes the car less likely to move.

6. Use the tire iron (the L-shaped bar that fits over the wheel lugs) to loosen each wheel lug. At this point, just loosen them.

7. Once you have done this, move the jack underneath the car. If you don't know where the proper jacking points are, look them up in the owner's manual.

8. Maneuver the jack underneath the jack point and start to raise the jack. Most car jacks these days are a screw-type scissor jack, which means you simply turn the knob at the end of the jack using the provided metal hand crank. Raise the jack until it contacts the car's frame and continue expanding the jack.

Removing the Flat Tire & installing the spare

1. Raise the car with the jack until the flat tire is completely raised off the ground. Once this is done, remove the wheel lugs completely, and put them in a safe place where they can't role away.

2. Position the spare tire over the wheel studs. This is the most physically challenging part of the whole process.

You'll have to hold up the tire and try to line up the holes in the wheel with the protruding wheel studs. One thing you could try is put the tire on your foot while you try to move the tire into position.

3. Once on the wheel studs, screw each of the wheel lugs back on. You'll want to start them by hand. Make sure you do not cross-thread them. The lugs should screw on easily.

When you can't do them up anymore by hand, get the tire iron out to finish them off. At this point you want to make sure that the lugs are snug and not super tight, and making sure the wheel is sitting flush to the brake hub.

4. Once the spare tire is on, carefully lower the jack and then pull the jack out from the vehicle when lowered.

5. The last step is to tighten the lugs completely. You do this at the end so the tire doesn't move around like it would of, if it was still in the air.