On this page, we will try to help you fix all the problems you might encounter around your car’s rims. And, principally, how to remove the rim of a Kia Picanto? Whether you need to change a flat tyre, or you need to change your tires, you will learn all the important informations reading this article. To accomplish this, we’ll see first how to remove the tire from a car rim, then, in a second part, how to remove a stuck rim on a Kia Picanto, after that, how to remove flat rim from its Kia Picanto to put the spare tire, and, at last, how to unblock the stuck nuts of a rim.
How to remove the tire from the rim of a Kia Picanto?
So we start our article content by explicating how to change a car tire. You maybe
bought your tire on a website, however it is quite complicated to manage to find professionals, car centers which will consent to install tires of your Kia Picantobought in a different place than in their commercial enterprise. The question of looking to install them without help is therefore more than logical.
It is theoretically possible with a lot of strength and a crowbar to change the tires of your Kia Picanto yourself, however, even if you manage to take off both sidewalls of the tire, to loosen it, and to put the new tire back on, you won’t be able to balance the tire without the specific machine, if you don’t do it, your tires will loose a lot of lifetime. Realize that oftentimes the installation and balancing costs only about twenty euros. In the event that you wish to buy tyres on the internet to benefit of a better selling price, take a good look, many of dealers provide the fitting at a partner car centre totally free.
How to remove a rim stuck to its hub on a Kia Picanto?
We now go forward to the part you are clearly most interested in, namely, how to remove the rim of a Kia Picanto stuck to its hub, and more precisely, the rather traditional circumstance of a rim that hasn’t been removed for quite a long time and that due to rust stuck to the hub of your wheel. In fact, it happens to many car owners to find themselves in this situation and not knowing what you can do. This can be particularly annoying in the case you have a flat tire and need to change the rim on your Kia Picanto. Here are the different possibilities available to you:
- If perhaps you have some accessible, after jacking up your car, and if you can on candles, and then getting rid of the rim nuts, use some anti-seize agent which you inject right into the holes of the nuts and leave it to work for about ten minutes. Following that, try again to remove the rim from your Kia Picanto.
- Use strength : Even though it is pretty much never the best method, in this kind of circumstance you are facing solid pieces that do not risk much, and with the help of a mallet and a wooden wedge you can hit the side of the rim of your Kia Picanto and this should certainly unlock it and allow you to remove it.
- Baste the junction between your rim of rust proof hub and wait a couple of hours before trying to unblock it again.
How to remove the rim of a Kia Picanto to change its flat tire and replace it with the spare wheel?
We are now going to teach you you the most traditional process but that everybody doesn’t know, how to remove the rim from its place if you have a puncture tyre and you want to change it by the spare wheel? This method is not complex, here are the several steps to follow:
- Stay out of traffic so as not to endanger yourself.
- Set your Kia Picanto on a flat surface.
- Engage the parking brake and engage first gear.
- If you don’t know where the jack of your Kia Picanto is, please have look at our article to learn you where is it located.
- Before jacking up your vehicle, unlock the rim nuts to ensure you won’t give too much stress to your transmission before lifting it
- Lift your Kia Picanto with the jack and end unscrewing the rim nuts of your car.
- Take the flat rim off your Kia Picanto.
- Placed on the spare wheel, position the nuts, tighten them all by hand, in a balanced way before putting the car back on the road.
- Complete tightening the nuts with the socket wrench
How do you remove the stuck nuts from the rim of a Kia Picanto?
To finish , it may happen that to remove the rim of your Kia Picanto you have to deal with stuck nuts. In this case, you will have pretty much the same possibilities for the circumstance of a rim stuck against the wheel hub. The best alternative will be to use anti-rust lubricant or anti-rust lubricant and allow it work for few moments before unlocking the nuts. Another possibility, try to look for, some exist on batteries of electric shock wrenches they generate a much higher torque than your arm plus the socket wrench, and will help you to unlock the nuts.
If you need more tutorials on the Kia Picanto, go to our Kia Picanto category.
