In this article, we will try to help you to clear up all the problems you could face around your car’s rims. And, especially, how to remove the rim of a Toyota Aygo? Whether you wish to change a flat tyre, or you wish to replace your tires, you will learn all the necessary informations reading this article. To do this, 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 Toyota Aygo, after that, how to remove flat rim from its Toyota Aygo 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 Toyota Aygo?
So we begin our article 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 mechanics, car centers which will consent to install tires of your Toyota Aygobought somewhere else than in their business. The question of looking to install them yourself is therefore more than logical.
It is technically possible with a lot of strength and a crowbar to change the tires of your Toyota Aygo alone, however, whether or not 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, if you don’t do it, your tires will loose a lot of lifetime. You should know that very often the installation and balancing costs only about twenty euros. Whenever you wish to purchase tyres on websites to benefit of a better selling price, take a good look, many of sellers offer the fitting at a partner car centre cost-free.
How to remove a rim stuck to its hub on a Toyota Aygo?
We now move on to the part you are clearly most enthusiastic about, namely, how to remove the rim of a Toyota Aygo stuck to its hub, and more specifically, the rather classic circumstance of a rim that hasn’t been removed for quite a while and that because of rust stuck to the hub of your wheel. In fact, it happens to a good number of road users to find themselves in this situation and not knowing what you can do. This can be specifically annoying in the case you have a flat tire and need to change the rim on your Toyota Aygo. Here are the different alternatives available to you:
- In the event you have some on hand, after lifting your car, and if possible on candles, and then taking away the rim nuts, use some anti-seize agent which you put in right 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 Toyota Aygo.
- Use muscle : Even though it is not often the best alternative, 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 Toyota Aygo and this should unlock it and allow you to remove it.
- Baste the junction between your rim of rust proof hub and wait some hours before trying to unblock it again.
How to remove the rim of a Toyota Aygo to change its punctured wheel and replace it with the spare wheel?
We are now going to explain you the most common procedure but that everybody doesn’t know, how to remove the rim from its place if you have a puncture tyre and you need to replace it by the spare wheel? This procedure is not difficult, here are the several steps to respect:
- Stay out of traffic so as not to endanger yourself.
- Set your Toyota Aygo on a flat surface.
- Engage the hand brake and engage first gear.
- If perhaps you don’t know where the jack of your Toyota Aygo is, please consult our article to learn you where is it located.
- Before lifting your vehicle, unlock the rim nuts to ensure that you won’t give too much stress to your transmission before lifting it
- Lift your Toyota Aygo with the jack and finish unscrewing the rim nuts of your car.
- Remove the flat tire of your Toyota Aygo.
- Placed on the spare wheel, put on the nuts, 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 Toyota Aygo?
To finish, it could happen that to remove the rim of your Toyota Aygo you have to deal with stuck nuts. In this instance, you will have more or less the same alternatives for the circumstance 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 several minutes before unlocking the nuts. Another possibility, search 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 want more tutorials on the Toyota Aygo, go to our Toyota Aygo category.
