In this specific article, we will try to help you to eliminate all the problems you could face around your car’s rims. And, especially, how to remove the rim of a Renault Trafic 3? Whether you need to change a flat wheel, or you need to change your tires, you will find all the required infos on this page. To achieve 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 Renault Trafic 3, then, how to remove flat rim from its Renault Trafic 3 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 Renault Trafic 3?
So we begin our content page by explaining how to change a car tire. You may have made a good deal by buying your tires on the internet, however it is quite difficult to manage to find professionals, car centers which will agree to mount tires of your Renault Trafic 3purchased elsewhere than in their commercial enterprise. The question of looking to mount them without any help is therefore more than logical.
It is theoretically plausible with a lot of force and a crowbar to change the tires of your Renault Trafic 3 on your own, however, regardless if you succed 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, and without it your tires will wear out prematurely. Take notice that frequently the installation and balancing costs only about twenty euros. If you prefer to buy tyres on the internet to benefit of a preferential price, take a good look, a good number of dealers will offer you the fitting at a partner car centre cost-free.
How to remove a rim stuck to its hub on a Renault Trafic 3?
We now move on to the part you are clearly most curious about, namely, how to remove the rim of a Renault Trafic 3 stuck to its hub, and more specifically, the rather typical case of a rim that hasn’t been removed for quite a long time and that because of rust stuck to the hub of your wheel. Indeed, it occurs to a large number of car owners to find themselves in this situation and not knowing how to proceed. This can be specifically annoying if it turns out you have a flat tire and need to change the rim on your Renault Trafic 3. Here are the different solutions available to you:
- If perhaps you have some accessible, after lifting your car, and if possible on candles, and then extracting the rim nuts, use some anti-seize agent which you put in into the holes of the nuts and let it to work for about ten minutes. After that, try again to remove the rim from your Renault Trafic 3.
- Use power : Despite the fact it is not often the best option, 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 Renault Trafic 3 and this should unlock it and allow you to remove it.
- Baste the junction between your rim of rust proof hub and wait a few hours before attempting to unblock it again.
How to remove the rim of a Renault Trafic 3 to change its punctured wheel and replace it with the spare wheel?
We are now going to teach you you the most classical procedure 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 operation is not complicated, here are the several steps to follow:
- Stay out of traffic so as not to endanger yourself.
- Set your Renault Trafic 3 on a flat surface.
- Put on the hand brake and shift into first gear.
- If you don’t know where the jack of your Renault Trafic 3 is, please have look at our article to help you to locate it.
- Before jacking up your vehicle, unlock the rim bolts to ensure that you don’t force your transmission once lifted
- Lift up your Renault Trafic 3 with the jack and end unscrewing the rim nuts of your car.
- Take the flat rim off your Renault Trafic 3.
- Put on the spare wheel, put on the bolts, tighten them all by hand, in a balanced way before putting the car back on the road.
- Finish tightening the nuts with the socket wrench
How do you remove the stuck nuts from the rim of a Renault Trafic 3?
Last part of our article, it could happen that to remove the rim of your Renault Trafic 3 you have to deal with stuck nuts. In this case, you will have approximately the same solutions for the case of a rim stuck against the wheel hub. The best solution will be to use anti-rust lubricant or anti-rust lubricant and allow it work for few moments before unlocking the nuts. Another possibility, search for, 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.
Whenever you have any further questions about the Renault Trafic 3, do not hesitate to consult our Renault Trafic 3 category.
