Jonathan Kamens 86 47
#tfw it's after Memorial Day and 80° outside and you suddenly realize you haven't taken the snow tires off the minivan yet.
I guess I know what I'm spending the next hour and a half doing!
May 26 at 11:36pmWeb
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47May 27
After years of practice I really can do it in an hour and a half:
Put tires on rims from under porch into minivan.
Put jack and big socket wrench from basement into minivan.
Drive to parking lot.
Get tire iron out of spare.
Loosen all lugnuts.
For each tire: position jack, jack up, remove lugnuts, remove old tire, put on new tire, put on lugnuts, lower jack.
Tighten all lugnuts.
Put away tire iron.
Put old tires in minivan.
Drive home.
Put tires under porch.
Put jack and wrench away.
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47May 27
Only problem I had this time around is I banged my hand pretty hard when removing one of the tires from under the porch and gave myself a good bruise on my ring finger which I'm pretty sure is going to swell. For the time being I've taken off my wedding ring and put it on my dog tag chain, because if my finger swells too much with the ring on it, it could cut off circulation and they'd have to cut off the ring.
Show threadJustin DerrickMay 27
@jik For speed, get yourself a small battery powered impact gun, and a 2ft breaker bar to make loosening the lug nuts a breeze. I only use the impact gun for getting off the loosened bolts, and lightly torquing the lug nuts — but it makes a few minutes of fumbling about take just a second or two.
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47May 27
@JustinDerrick Meh, not worth the expense given that I do this at most twice a year, and in my experience battery packs used that infrequently die extremely prematurely.
Show threadJustin DerrickMay 27
@jik I have a popular-yellow-brand battery powered impact gun, and it not only holds a charge, I’ve had it and the battery for 6 years without issue. It does get some extra use as I have a habit of changing tires for folks on the side of the road. I probably only charge it 3 times a year.
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47May 27
@JustinDerrick And I have a popular-orange-brand cordless drill that I had to stop using because it destroyed multiple battery packs because I used them too infrequently.
Disputing the problem I mentioned by describing circumstances which don't match the problem I mentioned certainly is a look.
Ref: https://gizmocleaning.com/do-lithium-batteries-expire-if-not-used/
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Show threadStuart MarksMay 27

@jik Do you check the air pressure in the new tires? I don’t do the snow tire thing, but I repeatedly forget to check the pressure of the spare. I inflated the spare in my wife’s car from 24psi to the recommended 60psi the other day. 😬 (It’s a temporary tire that takes higher pressure than regular tires.)

My car solved this problem by not having a spare. 😬

Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47May 27
@stuartmarks Yes, I check the tire pressure after putting the new tires on. I just couldn't fit that in 500 characters. 😉
It's rarely an issue though, because when I do this the tires just came off the minivan a few months ago and the TPMS would have told us if there was a pressure issue before they were removed.
Show threadStuart MarksMay 27
@jik Ok great, just checking. 😇