I've always known (phrased that way since I can't remember where I =20
first learned that) that it's bad to use a pneumatic/ratcheting wrench =20
on wheel lugs (as the big chain shops do here in the U.S.) as it =20
over-tightens the lugs.  I've been unable to remove a wheel before and =20
thankfully I was a home where I could get a pipe on it.

Taught my sister to change a tire a couple decades ago, and not sure =20
how she would've managed, considering she's about 5ft and 100lbs.

Cheers,
-Neil.




Quoting Ruben J=F6nsson <ruben@pp.sbbs.se>:

>> I could go on for hours. Oh, one last, be able to change a tire in the
>> dark quickly, especially a female. Number 1, is to get out of being a
>> sitting duck for harm by doing it self. Both daughters, before taking a
>> car alone, had to demonstrate changing a tire on a Ford Escort, and Ford
>> Bronco full size SUV.
>>
>
> After having my tires (wheels) mounted by the shop, I had to use a  =20
> 1m lever and
> a sturdy tire iron and even then had a hard time getting some of the =20
>  nuts off,
> I thought to myself that I was lucky beeing in the back yard and not on t=
he
> side of a dark road with a flat tire only equiped with the small  =20
> tire iron that
> came with the car. Even with the much larger and stronger tire iron  =20
> I could not
> have done it without some sort of lever (which I don't have with me in th=
e
> car).
>
> /Ruben
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