Winter Summer Tire Swap

当我写这篇文章时，地面上有15厘米的雪，它是-10度。But it's November 13th!?是的，我知道，今年早些时候我们都感到有点早。

幸运的是，我上周刚刚安装了我的冬季轮胎。我的夏季轮胎在MAGS上，而我的冬季轮胎是钢轮辋，这使得它们将它们交换出来，这是一个完全可行的自己动手的项目。我会告诉你几乎没有几个简单的步骤！

在开始之前，您需要找到工具套件，通常可以在行李箱中找到，有时可以使用备用轮胎。你应该有一个杰克和一些像螺旋扳手一样的基本工具轮楔。

Supplies:

• 交叉扳手https://amzn.to/32wMmJ6
• 轮圈https://amzn.to/2ny7s4f.
• 破碎杆https://amzn.to/2q6ju34.
• Socketshttps://amzn.to/2qax0rh.
• 粉笔https://amzn.to/2q4j0zl.
• Nitrile gloveshttps://amzn.to/372qadp.

我从前右轮开始，所以在做任何事情之前，我都会绕着汽车圈出来对面左后方wheeland install my轮楔在车轮的两侧，以确保汽车在千斤顶上的同时不会滚动。

You can also use bricks instead to wedge the wheels. You should also make sure you’re on a flat surface, and activate your parking brake.Safety first。

在升起车之前，你想首先松开凸耳螺母，只是为了让它们脱掉。

随着汽车的凸耳扳手，几乎不可能摆脱坚果。如果您每年要做这本每年，我强烈建议获得一个交叉扳手。For stuck on lug nuts, abreaker bar是一个必不可少的工具。

因此，随着汽车仍在地上，使用断路器杆或交叉扳手将螺母脱离。你不想暂时拧下坚果，只需让每个螺母移动。出于安全原因，在升起车之前，要做到这一点很重要。否则横向力可能导致汽车滚动并脱离千斤顶。

Once your lug nuts are free, grab your jack and start getting it into position. If you’re not sure where that is, be sure to check your manual. There will typically be some symbol or indicator of the fulcrum point, showing where to position the jack. My car says there’s an upside down triangle that leads to the leverage point.

So after finding the symbol I can set my jack into position onto the metal lip under the car’s steel frame, just as shown in my manual, making sure the jack stays nice and square, not leaning to either side. I can then slowly crank the jack to raise the car off the ground. You don’t want to raise it too high though, just enough to get the wheel off the ground.

You can now use your交叉扳手to remove all the lug nuts one by one….

Next you can go ahead and pull off the wheel. If it’s stuck on, give it a whack on the edge with your hand to knock it loose.

这也是锦上添花并标记轮胎的好时机，所以你会知道明年在哪里安装它们。

理想情况下，您希望每年以克里斯交叉模式旋转轮胎。然而，如果您有方向轮胎，这对于冬季轮胎很常见并在轮胎本身上指示箭头，您只能将轮胎旋转到后面。

Since I have directional tires, I grabbed the tire marked right rear and installed it front right.

此想法是尽可能地对准螺栓孔，然后将轮胎抬起到位。它有助于使用膝盖或脚来帮助将轮胎保持在边缘上。至少它帮助我！

然后抓住你的螺母并获得2个，只是为了把轮胎固定到位。继续添加剩余的凸耳螺母，并轻轻地拧紧它们的星形图案。

Then continue to go around in a star-pattern to tighten all the nuts, but don’t go full force just yet while the car is still jacked up. Otherwise you could rock the car right off the jack.

此时，您可以降低并删除插孔。

With the car back on the ground fully tighten the nuts, again going in a star-pattern. You don’t need to give it everything you’ve got. Stop when you feel a good amount of resistance and that the nut is snug, but don’t tighten to the point where you can’t get them off next year. If you have atorque wrench,this is ideal to tighten to the correct pressure.

All that’s left is to install the hubcaps if you have them by taping them in.

对所有4轮胎重复相同的过程，并确保将轮胎膨胀到您的推荐轮胎压力，这些轮胎压力通常可以在驾驶员侧门内部找到。在我的情况下，38 psi。

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