Remove Lug Nuts to Fix a Flat Tire

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Part of the video series: Tire Repair & Fixing a Flat

Summary: Remove lug nuts from the wheel, being careful not to strip the heads of the lug nuts. Learn to remove lug nuts to fix a flat tire from an auto mechanic in this free auto repair video.

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Mitch Jones Mitch Jones loves working on cars as a hobby, and over the past 11 years has made it into a fulfilling career. He specializes in European vehicles, but can fi... read more

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Remove Lug Nuts to Fix a Flat Tire

Our next step is actually removing the lug nut; lug nuts. So, what you want to do, depending on whether you have the conventional style, you find your proper fitting to remove your lug nuts from the wheel. So, what you want to do once you have them loosed up while you're on the ground. This is probably the easiest step so you know you just take your time and remove each lug nut. You know, once you get it loose you don't really need the four way tool or whatever tool you're using. You just remove each lug nut in the same fashion. Now, sometimes this may get hard if your, the lug nuts have gotten cross threaded because it makes it to where they don't move as freely as they are moving right now; as you can see. So, you remove all of the lug nuts. Some wheels have five or six or more lug nut holes to them. The car we're doing only has four. So, depending on the application you may have to remove more than four lug nuts and so on and so forth. So, once you have all the lug nuts removed you just simply, you remove the tire and place it out of the way. There you have removing the lug nuts and tire.

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