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MissCandice 
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:05pm |
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Know how to change a tyre?
My uncles girlfriend was here and we were talking, she was about to leave and i said 'yu do realize your tyre is dead flat aye?'
Nope she had no idea, and then she said she doesnt know how to change a tyre, so i got the jack out of her boot and she tries to put it ONTOP of the flat tyre in the wheel arch!! LMAO i was in hysterics of laughter by this stage!
How is that suppose to jack the car up!
Lol so i ended up changing it for her.
So how many of you know how to change a tyre?
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MrsMojo
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:08pm |
My dad made sure I knew how to change a tyre before he gave me my first car. It's come in handy too. I've had to do a tyre change on the side of the Akl motorway during peak traffic and in a carparking building in the middle of Wgtn during peak hour too - I would have been there for ages, both times, if I had to wait around for roadside rescue to come and do it for me.
ETA: Sounds like an amusing visit, did you get any of it on camera? 
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:09pm |
I sort of know... maybe I should take some lessons from DH to be sure?! 
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:10pm |
LMAO! I've seen it done often enough to probably figure it out, but I don't need to - I have a Willie
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:12pm |
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LMAO!
It was the funniest thing iv seen all year!! Na i didnt get it on camera but i did say to her that seeing her doing that on the side of the road would win her 'Americas Funniest Home Videos' for sure!!
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:15pm |
ha ha
yip i know how to... My dad was like yours Jo - made sure i knew how to do it 
not that i have need to so far (wanders off to find some wood to touch)
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:18pm |
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I 'know' how to do it but the only time I tried I couldn't get the nuts off, then when someone else took them off I was too weak to lift the tyre on!
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:22pm |
Nope, neither does DH. We are screwed
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:22pm |
My Dad made me chane tyres and oil before I was allowed my first lesson! doesnt mean I wont pretend not to know
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:26pm |
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Lol Im the same as you summerlamb. Especially when the nuts have been tightened by machine after having a wheel alignment, its impossible for me to do!
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:29pm |
i know HOW too, but i wouldnt do it, thats mans work.  i'd just drive the car homew a make dh do it, id have a fit too coz i'v got chromes and it will look silly with a space saver.
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 2:44pm |
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dad is a mechanic so i can change a tyre, change an oil filter, air filter, spark plug most other simple things although if i had to do anything else i could probably guess. on the other hand my sister hates getting dirty, she is 10 years older than me and i had to show her how to pour petrol herself if there was no attendant. she cant even change a lightbulb. lol. everyone is different. she has AA so its no biggy.
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 3:06pm |
Lol that would have been so funny!
My Dad is like some of the others on here. I wasn't allowed to learn how to drive until I knew that!
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 3:09pm |
I do!! And when the nuts are stuck I just jump on the handle. I know how to do most of what Monikah does...I just plead ignorance now though, it's what DF is for unless I'm really stuck (or I'm stuck on the side of the road with a flatty). Helps that I help DF build and pull apart his speedway car motor every season though, and we frequently change the tyres depending on the track conditions.
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 3:17pm |
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Isn't that what the AA is for
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 3:25pm |
minik8e wrote:
I do!! And when the nuts are stuck I just jump on the handle. |
Same here. I've only ever had one flat though. I was driving through town and the tyre started banging. So I pulled over and sure enough, totally flat. I realised I was just outside a mate's place, so I texted him and said I was outside changing a tyre and he should come help. So he came outside, confessed he had no idea how, and proceeded to sit on the footpath and watch me do it. Good thing I knew how
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 3:52pm |
My parents used to own a garage so have known for a while how to do that.
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.Mel
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 4:40pm |
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Yep I know how too, I even know how to lower a car and chop springs (past life I was a boy racer's chick)
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 5:03pm |
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I can but I would hardly ever do it. That's what brothers are for. Could also do an oil change and all that if I reeeally wanted to...................................... but I don't.
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Posted: 18 February 2009 at 5:12pm |
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Yep! It was one of the first lessons my dad taught me while learning to drive. That and checking oil & water. Very good skills to learn I think
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