In this article, we want to assist you fix all the problems you could come across around your car’s rims. And, especially, how to remove the rim of a Opel Meriva? Whether you want to change a flat wheel, or you want to change your tires, you will learn all the important infos on this page. To do so, we’ll see first how to remove the tire from a car rim, then, in a second step, how to remove a stuck rim on a Opel Meriva, then, how to remove flat rim from its Opel Meriva to put the spare tire, and, finally, how to unblock the stuck bolts of a rim.
How to remove the tire from the rim of a Opel Meriva?
So we start our content page by telling you how to change a car tire. You maybe
bought your tire on a website, however it is quite complicated to find mechanics, car centers that will approve to mount tires of your Opel Merivabought in another place than in their commercial enterprise. The question of seeking to mount them yourself is therefore more than respectable.
It is theoretically possible with a lot of strength and a crowbar to change the tires of your Opel Meriva without help, 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 if you dont have the specific tools, if you don’t do it, your tires will loose a lot of lifetime. Bear in mind that generally the installation and balancing price ranges only about twenty euros. If you wish to purchase tyres on websites to take advantage of a preferential pricing, take a good look, a good number of suppliers will offer you the fitting at a partner car centre cost-free.
How to remove a rim stuck to its hub on a Opel Meriva?
We now go forward to the part you are most certainly most interested in, namely, how to remove the rim of a Opel Meriva stuck to its hub, and more specifically, the rather typical case of a rim that hasn’t been removed for a long time and that because of rust stuck to the hub of your wheel. Indeed, it occurs to many road users to find themselves in this circumstance and not knowing what you can do. This can be specifically annoying if it turns out you have a flat tire and need to change the rim on your Opel Meriva. Here are the different solutions available to you:
- If you have some with you, after jacking up your car, and if you can on candles, and then taking away the rim nuts, use some anti-seize agent which you put in into the holes of the nuts and let it to operate for approximately ten minutes. After that, try again to remove the rim from your Opel Meriva.
- Use strength : Even though it is rarely the best solution, in this kind of case 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 Opel Meriva and this might unlock it and allow you to remove it.
- Baste the junction between your rim of rust proof hub and wait a period of time before making an attempt to unblock it again.
How to remove the rim of a Opel Meriva to change its punctured wheel and replace it with the spare wheel?
We are at this moment going to explain you the most conventional process but that everybody doesn’t know, how to remove the rim from its place if you have a puncture tyre and you need to change it by the spare wheel? This process is not complicated, here are the several steps to follow:
- Stay out of traffic so as not to endanger yourself.
- Set your Opel Meriva on a flat surface.
- Put on the hand brake and shift into first gear.
- If perhaps you don’t know where the jack of your Opel Meriva is, don’t hesitate to read our article to help you to locate it.
- Before jacking up your vehicle, unlock the rim bolts so that you don’t force your transmission once lifted
- Lift your Opel Meriva with the jack and finish unscrewing the rim nuts of your car.
- Take the flat rim off your Opel Meriva.
- Put on the spare wheel, position the bolts, tighten them all by hand, in a balanced way before putting the car back on the road.
- End tightening the nuts with the socket wrench
How do you remove the stuck nuts from the rim of a Opel Meriva?
Last part of our article, it might happen that to remove the rim of your Opel Meriva you have to deal with stuck nuts. In this instance, you will have more or less the same solutions for the case of a rim stuck against the wheel hub. The best method will be to use anti-rust lubricant or anti-rust lubricant and allow it work for a bit of time before unlocking the nuts. Another option, try to find, some exist on batteries of electric shock wrenches they release a much higher torque than your arm plus the socket wrench, and will help you to unlock the nuts.
If you want more guides on the Opel Meriva, go to our Opel Meriva category.
