I went to start my car this morning and noticed I have a flat tire. I have a spare tire I can use to get me to a repair shop, but I don’t know how to put it on. Which way does a spare tire go on?
Megan Lebron · Answered on Jul 21, 2022
Reviewed by Shannon Martin, Licensed Insurance Agent.
Believe it or not, it is possible to accidentally put a spare tire on backward. Luckily, there’s an easy way to tell which way the spare tire should go on – just look for the valve stem (it’s where you put a tire gauge to check your tire pressure).
The valve stem should point outward. If the valve stem points toward your vehicle, you’ve got the tire on backward.
If you need a little more help getting your spare tire on, follow these steps:
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Almost every car on the road has a spare tire, but do you know how to use it? Better yet, do you even know where it is? It seems that many people don’t even realize they have one, and we’ve seen spare tires in 15-year-old vehicles that have never seen the light of day.
Chances are you, too, may never need to use one, but it’s a good thing to know. After all, you never know if you might wake up to a flat tire in your driveway or have the TPMS (tire pressure monitoring system) give you a warning out on the highway.
If you think about it, a tire is basically a balloon, albeit a very serious balloon. Made of steel and fabric bands encased in rubber, your tires give you traction, control, and a measure of shock absorption. Still, as a balloon, it can be deflated. Road debris, such as stray car parts or sharp rocks, can puncture the tire. The tire may leak from the valve stem or between the tire and the wheel. In some cases, wheel damage, such as a bent or cracked rim, can allow air to leak from the tire.
The result is a flat tire, and they can happen to everyone. It doesn’t matter who you are, what vehicle you drive, or even how you drive it. Still, everything you need to know is right there in your owner’s manual, which you should get to know intimately.
If you don’t have your owner’s manual, you can buy one from your dealer or Amazon or eBay. You might be able to download it for free at JustGiveMeTheDamnManual.com. In case you get a flat tire, here’s what you need to know.
There are three kinds of spare tire, depending on the vehicle. If your vehicle is equipped with a full-size spare, then it works the same as the tires already mounted on your vehicle. If your vehicle has alloy wheels, the spare may be mounted on an alloy wheel or a steel wheel, and different lug nuts may be required.
The temporary spare or compact spare, sometimes referred to as a “donut,” is narrower than the tires mounted on your vehicle and may be of a smaller diameter. As its designation suggests, it is for temporary use only, for a limited distance and maximum speed.
Vehicles equipped with run-flat tires are usually not shipped with a spare tire, and may not even include a space for one.
Instead, run-flat tires are built with extra-strong sidewall materials. If a run-flat tire goes flat, you can still drive it but, like temporary spare tires, for a limited distance and speed.
While you can use a full-size spare under all the same conditions, speeds, and distances of the regular tires, use caution when driving with a temporary spare or run-flat tire. The temporary spare and run-flat tire are only meant to be used for a limited distance and speed. Exceed that distance or speed and you could ruin the tire, your car, or lose traction and get into an accident. Replace a temporary spare or run-flat tire as soon as possible.
Once you discover you have a flat tire, you’ll have to replace it with the spare tire. It’s a good idea to practice this on a nice day if you can. Full instructions for your specific vehicle can be found in your owner’s manual, but here are the basic steps you need to follow.
Your driveway, a parking lot, or well off the shoulder should be fine. Turn off the vehicle, put the transmission in park or in gear, and set the parking brake.
Spin the lug nuts on until the wheel stops wiggling.Tires don’t last forever, but we can help you make them last. At Dobbs Tire & Auto Centers, our ASE Certified technicians keep up-to-date on the latest tire maintenance and repair techniques. If you have a tire problem or you’re running on your spare tire right now, come in and talk to one of our experienced technicians about your repair options. With 42 locations, there’s bound to be one convenient to your home, job, or school.
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Jubarin
nine0007 Sent by 22.08.2006, 13:35:57New on the tire market of Kazakhstan - Inflate tires with the purest alpine high-mountain air!!!
This air is specially collected on the highest Alpine peaks, it is characterized by high rarefaction and low water vapor content. As you know from the school physics course, it is impossible to boil water with rarefied air = this explains the low susceptibility to changes in the tire when the tire is heated. Why pay for nitrogen when you can pump rarefied alpine super air into your tires! Remember, the miser pays twice! Correct the ecological situation in Kazakhstan, fill tires with our air! In addition, at any moment you can stop and lower the pressure in the tire right in your face - and you will find yourself on top of the Alps! There will never be enough air - since it is more discharged - more will fit into its tire! nine0009 Super offer! Only 5000 tenge for 4 wheels, and as a gift we will fill you with high-mountainous Tien Shan air! Hurry! Tire shop "U Inokentiya" is waiting for you!!!
I'm pissed off myself!!! Already stsuko tears appeared!
Post has been editedJubarin: 22.
08.2006, 13:59:08
Sent by 22.08.2006, 13:39:32
No current needed!
Squeezing a tire with alpine air makes a big difference when squeezing it with nitrogen.
Jubarin
Sent by 22.08.2006, 13:44:06
Someone else is doing tire squeezing! there is someone else licking!
Estay
Sent by 22.
08.2006, 16:03:08
New on the tire market of Kazakhstan - Inflate tires with the purest alpine high-mountain air!!! nine0009 This air is specially collected on the highest Alpine peaks, it is characterized by high rarefaction and low water vapor content. As you know from the school physics course, it is impossible to boil water with rarefied air = this explains the low susceptibility to changes in the tire when the tire is heated. Why pay for nitrogen when you can pump rarefied alpine super air into your tires! Remember, the miser pays twice! Correct the ecological situation in Kazakhstan, fill tires with our air! In addition, at any moment you can stop and lower the pressure in the tire right in your face - and you will find yourself on top of the Alps! There will never be enough air - since it is more discharged - more will fit into its tire! nine0009 Super offer! Only 5000 tenge for 4 wheels, and as a gift we will fill you with high-mountainous Tien Shan air! Hurry! Tire shop "U Inokentiya" is waiting for you!!!
A born marketer!!!
Sent by on 22.
08.2006, 16:07:55
New on the tire market of Kazakhstan - Inflate tires with the purest alpine high-mountain air!!!
This air is specially collected on the highest Alpine peaks, it is characterized by high rarefaction and low water vapor content. As you know from the school physics course, it is impossible to boil water with rarefied air = this explains the low susceptibility to changes in the tire when the tire is heated. Why pay for nitrogen when you can pump rarefied alpine super air into your tires! Remember, the miser pays twice! Correct the ecological situation in Kazakhstan, fill tires with our air! In addition, at any moment you can stop and lower the pressure in the tire right in your face - and you will find yourself on top of the Alps! There will never be enough air - since it is more discharged - more will fit into its tire! nine0009 Super offer! Only 5000 tenge for 4 wheels, and as a gift we will fill you with high-mountainous Tien Shan air! Hurry! Tire shop "U Inokentiya" is waiting for you!!!
Will not run.
Here they buy only for nitrogen and for its "nitrous"
Jubarin
Sent 08/23/2006 10:26:01 AM
Even everyone was silent! here the topic is so normal as much relieves stress!
Toxic
Sent by 23.08.2006, 10:48:33
how is your nitrogen doing?
By the way, did you fill the spare tire with nitrogen? and then suddenly there will be a puncture (although this is very unlikely, because tires on nitrogen do not puncture), well, you put a spare tire, and there is air in it .
.. a mess, it's not fashionable and harmful for the suspension
Jubarin
Sent by 23.08.2006, 11:10:19
how is your nitrogen doing?
By the way, did you fill the spare tire with nitrogen? and then suddenly there will be a puncture (although this is very unlikely, because tires on nitrogen do not puncture), well, you put a spare tire, and there is air in it ... a mess, it's not fashionable and harmful for the suspension
My nitrogen? zae ... he doesn’t ask to eat a pack! and I'll think about it! Yes, here's your proposal interested in maybe alpine air will be pumped? discount if you do?
This post has been edited by Jubarin: 08/23/2006, 11:10:53 AM
acc-ura-cy Sent by 10/27/2006, 00:24:13
Lexus on nitrogen
Fuckers, suckers everywhere.......they don't have access to Khokhlyat confs, otherwise they would read about the laws of physics....
Dr.IMP
Sent 10/27/2006 09:50:02
People, but no one measured the pressure with some reference pressure gauge after nitrogen injection? And then doubts gnaw at me ... Now I’ll explain why: when I was changing tires, there was a nitrogen injection service at the vulcanization, I drove up and said to throw the rubber over and pump it with air. While they were working (2 vulcanizers - one, as I understood it, was the elder, the second, apparently, was new, the youngest, because the elder showed him everything and told him everything).
So I’m standing near their booth, almost at the door, but behind them, and the eldest at this time picks up two hoses with pressure gauges - one with nitrogen and the other with air, goes to my freshly inflated wheel and connects it in turn first air with the words: "Do you see how much it shows here?" (I asked for 2.0 - then I checked all the wheels on another hundred - everywhere from 1.95 to 2.05), then he connects the nitrogen pressure gauge - "Do you see how much here?". I don’t know what it was - maybe they looked at how bad the pressure gauge was, maybe something else, but the quick folding of fishing rods and conversations after the appearance of another client alerted me. Therefore, the question is - has anyone checked the nitrogen pressure with a normal pressure gauge? I kind of really don’t care deeply about him, it just became interesting ...
Post has been edited by Dr.IMP: 10/27/2006, 09:50:40 AM nine0006
Predator
Sent by 27.
10.2006, 10:41:20
probably "nitrogen" less shows, for a lighter feeling of driving
Sent by 10/27/2006, 12:26:18
... just wondering...
Usually, before the air is pumped out, the pressure that was is fixed. After that, the same is done, with the same pressure gauge.
I, too, a sinful thing, thought that the pressure gauge was lying, but I checked everything with mine from HELLA, the sensation did not work.
Sent by 10/27/2006, 12:31:45
at the Kazmunaevskaya gas station, on Al-Farabi - Furmanov, a unit was installed and a poster "Nitrogen injection" above it.
While the unit is in cellophane. Wait-sir.
Sent by 27.10.2006, 15:41:11
at the Kazmunaevskaya gas station, which is on Al-Farabi - Furmanov, a unit was installed and a poster "Nitrogen injection" above it. While the unit is in cellophane. Wait-sir.
I was there at lunchtime, they pumped one grandfather in my presence ...
and the "muscle" asks me - here you have nitrogen - you feel it ???
I say that they just advised me, because I went to Astana and back, and after an unsuccessful experience last year, I didn’t get there - the balloon burst from overheating, a familiar vulcanizer recommended .
.. well, I shook it ... the softness is slightly achyschaitsa kada 2 I do points, patama like cylinders 225/45/17 ...
before that pumped air 2 points, on nitrogen 2.2 right now ... now it’s the same ... but it flew from Astana 190-200 and nishtyak ...
NKV
Sent by 27.10.2006, 15:48:36
Downloaded from boredom. +/- don't care, because winter is coming soon - change tires anyway... nine0009
Dr.IMP
Sent by 27.10.2006, 15:49:52
... it just became interesting...
Usually, before air is pumped out, the pressure that was is fixed. After that, the same is done, with the same pressure gauge. nine0009
Someone didn't understand the phrase...
Shturman Vasya
Sent by 27.10.2006, 19:07:44
And who said that airplane tires are filled with nitrogen?
Probably so that the suspension does not break
As far as I remember, with ordinary air, though the pressure is about 20 atm.
nine0009 I flew a Su-24, and so in the summer the so-called "plugs" are melted out, the air comes out, then the techies pump them up from the usual air. Yes, before that, the wheels are cooled with water from a sprinkler.
There is nitrogen in the pressurization of the tanks, who needs it so that the fuel does not boil at a height.
Shaman VW
Sent by 10/28/2006, 02:57:34
All this high-flying masturbation
737
Sent by 29.
10.2006, 00:13:38
On Soviet aircraft - yes, by air. On the western only nitrogen. And to use it for cars, so we have been using it in the port for our cars for a long time, even when it was not in the city, because it is easier than calling air, so shoot it, but it doesn’t matter. And it won't, because it doesn't exist!!! Moreover, we have a wide range of cars. And everyone at work laughs when they read about nitrogen in the city! nine0006
Post edited 737: 10/29/2006, 00:15:22
Maxi_2000
Sent by 29.10.2006, 21:38:20
I see the circus is open again? What to do, otherwise they will create new topics again ....
I repeat, that in the air that we breathe is already 78% nitrogen.
nine0009 Yes, oxygen oxidizes rubber, we will save it with pure nitrogen from the inside, but what about the outside? Yes, oxygen destroys rubber for ten years, but how often do we change rubber? Once a decade? I don't think.
Also, moisture in the air leads to corrosion of the disk, but here without moisture, so you can put a filter on the compressor and dry the air, so pour silica gel into the wheels.
If you look for the second topic, then there the buyers themselves say that we are not swindlers, and we don’t do worse to our clients, besides, our clients receive colored wheel caps! nine0009 You pay that for caps, the secret is out.
Of course, at the speed of a landing plane under 300 km / h, nitrogen is necessary to prevent a tire burst, and whoever travels at such a speed, immediately pump in nitrogen, make sure that you suck out the air so that the tire shrinks, and then pure nitrogen!
Traveling Adelaide - Sydney.
We made a journey of 1400 km in our car, an old '89 Ford. The locals panicked when they found out that we were going to ride it. But we, on the one hand, did not have much choice, since flying by plane is expensive: four people after all. It was possible to sell the car and fly for this money, but somehow this option did not suit us. Secondly, we were not yet frightened and vaguely imagined what dangers might be along the way. Well, yes, stuck in the middle of the desert a few hundred kilometers from the nearest settlement. Well, it can still crash due to high speed and lack of driving experience. But these are all supposed dangers, and where they are not, on the other hand, these dangers. nine0412 In general, we decided come what may, we go by car.
Problem number one was that on my last day in Adelaide I caught a good screw somewhere in the wheel. Well, it naturally went down. I flew to work in Sydney without suspecting anything. Wife calls, what they say to do? The car stands sideways, the wheel is flat, there are no tools, I don’t know how to change it.
Fortunately, there were friends with tools came and put the spare tire. And then, lo and behold, the spare tire was broken, thanks to the previous owner. The spare tire goes down, the car warps, people look at it and decide to put a couple of bricks in so that the wheel does not completely deteriorate. This is how our car stood before my arrival - on bricks with a broken spare wheel. nine0412 Well, we need to repair the wheel. I started looking for repair shops nearby. The repair garage closest to us, as if by evil, closed, the next one is in the neighboring area. Twenty minutes walk. Is this distance! Is it gravity! And they didn’t carry such loads as students. Wheel in the bag, shoulder bag and stomped.
I come to the garage slightly out of breath, so I say, as agreed, put a patch on the wheel.
A man looks at a wheel and says, I can't repair such a wheel. Why is that, I ask? But because the tread is worn out, the wheel is bald, he says, according to the law I have no right! Man, I say, why are you, but I have to go, and I have a wheel, you can finally! No, she says, I'm really sorry, like.
nine0412 Okay, I say what to do, do you have used wheels? I, he says, no, but there is such a shop nearby.
I'm going there. I say, leave the disc, change the tire. Yes, no question, they answer, any whim for your money. Changed. At what it seemed inexpensive to me and I decided to change the spare wheel. They certainly won’t glue it up - it’s worn down to the cord in some places.
I brought them a spare wheel already on the car, already on a new one wheel and three old ones. Changed the tire and camera and spare tire. nine0412 Beauty, I think, and now I’ll go to the service, let the men look at the brakes, otherwise the brake fluid leaked out a little and the brake pedal is very sluggish. Well, in general, I think I’ll say so that they can see if everything is in order, the road is a long one.
I call in, so and so, I say, brakes and in general, and how much will it cost ?. Now let's see, they answer. They drove the car onto a lift, removed the wheel, started watching something, recording it.
I tell them, guys, I don't have much time, and you don't drive horses, you first tell me how much it will cost, and then we'll decide whether something needs to be done. nine0412 Finally, their chief comes with such a good list, makes long phone calls and checks the catalogs, and finally gives out: the car is in bad condition. Of course, I answer, the old one! What is it to her to be in good? What's wrong with the brakes?
Here, he says, is a list, this needs to be changed, but it's expensive. Clearly, I answer, and how much is it "expensive"? Six hundred plus bucks, he says. I literally freaked out. I say this is certainly interesting, but the car itself did not cost much more, so this is unlikely. Well, he says, here it is necessary to change this and that, otherwise it is dangerous to drive. Please note that the conversation is purely about the braking system. No, I say, this alignment will not work. What needs to be changed at a minimum to make it work? The man replies that everything needs to be changed.
I say pour the brake fluid just to me and that's it. No, he answers, I can’t upload it, only if I change everything. So, I say, thank you, put everything back, we will say goodbye. nine0412 I then went to the Russian mechanic. He looked, and finally made me happy. I, he says, would not go to Sydney in such a car. Well, there's really no choice, I answer, but what's wrong? Well, you need to see it all well before that. And what to do with the brakes, I say? And how did you even get here, he asks, with such and such brakes. Yes, that's how I arrived, I answer, reluctantly. In general, before, before the brake fluid was in the reservoir, it seemed to be normal. Well, he says, then buy liquids and fill it up. nine0412 And so he did. It seems to be better, but not by much.
Okay, I guess there's nothing to do. You have to go like this. I, in the end, was going to go to Sydney, and not slow down to Sydney. And in general, the brakes were invented by cowards, more gas - fewer holes. Etc.
Upon arrival home, I loaded the car to the eyeballs with things. Much had to be left - once again they took only the most necessary. We spent the night with friends and in the morning we set off.
Crossed Adelaide almost diagonally. Some 20 kilometers, maybe a little more, I don’t remember exactly. Against the background of the upcoming 1400, they still looked pale. nine0412 Well, then romance began. Endless desert on all sides and the road. Just like in American films. Settlements were rare. In total there were up to a dozen of them along the entire journey.
After a couple of hundred kilometers, the little ones flocked to the toilet. I stopped at the nearest gas station and got out. And then the small ones with a cry of “Flowing” show under the car. I look really normal, so a greenish liquid is gushing from under the hood. Well, everyone, I think, came, damn it. Opened the hood. I look at the coolant (like our Antifreeze) flows through the top and gurgles so displeasedly.
Then I remembered that in an attempt to optimize space, I tried to add this same liquid, so to speak, just in case, into the tank. Maybe there isn't much of it. But it turned out to be normal there, and it also turned out in practice that when the body is heated, physical ones expand, and liquids can also boil. nine0412 Okay, I think the excess will pour out, but how much will be left. I still have some in the bottle, if I need to, I'll add it. And, without taking a bad idea, we went on.
Periodically, I stopped and looked at the levels of liquids in the tanks. Brake like a fine fellow - the level fell slightly, but no longer decreased. The coolant splashed out, and really left, you can see how much is needed.
We must pay tribute to the Australian roads. I can rate it as very good, although people who have been to America say that it is worse here. Maybe. On average, we drove at a speed of 100-110 km / h, except for places where there were restrictions. But there are few such places - settlements and a few more bridges, etc.
Only in one place, at the end of the first day, a rather poor section of the road came across: patched pits, like in Ukraine, and it was uncomfortable to drive along it at a speed of 100, as it was shocking, but at 80 it was quite tolerable. nine0412 From time to time huge trucks rushed towards us. The highway has one lane in both directions, so it turns out that we were passing at a distance of about a meter from each other. The speed of our car was more than a hundred kilometers per hour, and the trucks were driving no less, as a result, the air strike turned out well - the car was noticeably stormy. After several occasions, when a truck approached, I began to try to stay away from the median, that is, closer to the curb. It helped, but not much. nine0412 All roads are well marked. The markings are made with white paint, and in addition to this, white, yellow or red reflectors are installed along each marking line every 2 meters. I did not notice a single rule for installing colors. It happens that red stripes go along the left edge, and white along the right.
And it happens that both of them are either white or yellow. In any case, in the dark, before your eyes is a corridor of luminous lanterns. Since they are convex, they also perform an additional function: if you drive the wheel into the lane, the car starts to shake. I suppose if I dozed off or just got distracted, then in this way the road brings to life. Yes, and simply because of them I have to go within the lane, and not as much as I have to. nine0412 Although Australia is one continent, nature is different. At the beginning of the path was almost a desert with bushes. Something reminded the Donetsk steppes. There were few trees and they were mostly low.
As we approached Sydney, more and more tall trees came across, they began to grow thicker. Areas like forests began to come across.
We crossed the Murray River several times. If anyone remembers the Australian film “All Rivers Run”, which was broadcast on our Soviet television around the same year as such films as “Octopus” and “Midshipmen Forward!”, You can remember that this river looks very muddy.
So it is, it is muddy not only in the film but also in life. The water is yellowish-red, as if someone is stubbornly stirring the clay there. In width, of course, this is not the Dnieper, but also not small. And on the coasts, seasonal areas of the spill are clearly visible: in the summer it dries up, and then spills. Many rivers do not exist at all in the summer - they dry up completely, only the channel remains. nine0412 On the first day we traveled 1000 km and arrived in the evening in a town called Wagga Wagga with the hope of staying overnight in some motel, and in the morning we continue on our way.
But the search for a motel, as evil as it was, was not easy. Having traveled all over the city for an hour, we could not find a free room. Everything is busy. At many motels, a sign glows at the entrance, they say, there are no places. And on those where it does not glow, they report this at the reception.
According to the map, there should have been two more small towns further down the road at a distance of about six kilometers.
We decided to go there and try our luck. But these towns somehow ended before they even started, and we quickly found ourselves back on the track. nine0412 There was no gas, I was planning to refuel in this Wagga Wagga in the morning and somehow lost sight of it while looking for a motel. Gas station was on the outskirts of the city and it was decided to go to refuel and spend the night in the car.
On the way back, I already fell into the first motel I came across, despite the inscription NO VACANCY, and I told the man, damn it, I need any room, there is at least something. He says, except perhaps the stable. Well, I say, if there is a bed, then come on. There is no bed, he says, but there is a motel nearby, just behind the gas station, there may be a room there, because there was one after dinner. We decided to try one last time, if not, then sleep in the car. We arrived, yes there are two rooms, each with two single beds. Normally, it's still better than a stable or sleeping in a car.
Moved them together and they all fit perfectly. nine0412 The comfort of the motel room is reminiscent of Ukrainian hotels. In the sense that the furniture is quite old and in some places it is better not to touch the doors and drawers, more fall out. One of the advantages over the same hotel is that the price includes six bags of instant coffee, tea, sugar and cream. In the Kozatskaya hotel, for example, I don’t remember this. The tea went, I remember, excellent, it was just what the doctor ordered. And if in the same Kozatskaya for shampoo you had to go to the floor grandmother (!) - a kind of savings, then here shampoo sachets were in the bathroom. nine0412 We drank tea, the kids watched TV and went to bed. We had to leave before 10 am, which suited us perfectly. We left at a quarter to seven in the morning. And then the question arose, how to rent a number? The office is closed - the sign said that it opens at 7.30. I heard how people used to leave before, besides, having lived here for a while, I vaguely guessed that the procedure for renting a hotel room, well known in Ukraine, should be somehow easier here.
There was such a feeling, but what is the use of feeling if there is no knowledge. I had to ring the office bell, provided for late night visitors. After a few minutes of my persistent calls, a sleepy dude in shorts came out, what do you need, he asks? Yes, I say, we are leaving ... Well, put the key in that box over there and go ahead, he says. And indeed, there is a wooden box on the wall in front of the office, it looks like a postal box and the inscription on it, like you were glad to come again, I threw the key there and drove off. It's a pity dude, I didn't let him sleep in the morning. But I was expecting a room check to see if we had stolen towels, toilet paper, sheets, pillows, etc. Well, as is customary in our country. nine0412 The remaining 400 km were passed without incident.
They were afraid to drive in the dark the previous evening, they say kangaroos jump out into the headlights and throw themselves under the car. While looking for a motel, we wandered between cities, and a lot of people traveled.
