In this post, we will try to help you to fix all the problems you might come across around your car’s rims. And, principally, how to remove the rim of a Volkswagen Lupo? Whether you wish to change a flat wheel, or you wish to replace your tires, you will find all the important infos reading this article. To do 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 Volkswagen Lupo, later, how to remove flat rim from its Volkswagen Lupo 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 Volkswagen Lupo?
So we begin our article content 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 Volkswagen Lupopurchased somewhere else than in their business. The question of seeking to mount them without help is therefore more than legitimate.
It is theoretically plausible with a lot of strength and a crowbar to change the tires of your Volkswagen Lupo alone, 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 if you dont have the specific tools, if you don’t do it, your tires will loose a lot of lifetime. Realize that very often the installation and balancing costs only about twenty euros. If you prefer to purchase tyres on websites to take advantage of a preferential selling price, take a good look, a good number of dealers offer the fitting at a partner car centre free of charge.
How to remove a rim stuck to its hub on a Volkswagen Lupo?
We now go forward to the part you are obviously most enthusiastic about, namely, how to remove the rim of a Volkswagen Lupo stuck to its hub, and more precisely, the rather traditional case of a rim that hasn’t been removed for a long time and that due to rust stuck to the hub of your wheel. In fact, it occurs to many drivers to find themselves in this circumstance and not knowing what you can do. This can be particularly annoying if you have a flat tire and need to change the rim on your Volkswagen Lupo. Here are the different possibilities available to you:
- In the event you have some on hand, after lifting your car, and when possible 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 leave it to operate for approximately ten minutes. After that, try again to remove the rim from your Volkswagen Lupo.
- Use strength : Even though it is almost never the best choice, 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 Volkswagen Lupo 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 making an attempt to unblock it again.
How to remove the rim of a Volkswagen Lupo to change its punctured wheel and replace it with the spare wheel?
We are at the moment going to show 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 replace it by the spare wheel? This technique is not complex, here are the different steps to follow:
- Stay out of traffic so as not to put at risk yourself.
- Place your Volkswagen Lupo on a flat surface.
- Put on the hand brake and engage first gear.
- If you don’t know where the jack of your Volkswagen Lupo is, please have look at our article to learn you where is it located.
- Before lifting your vehicle, unlock the rim nuts so that you won’t give too much stress to your transmission before lifting it
- Lift up your Volkswagen Lupo with the jack and finish unscrewing the rim nuts of your motor vehicle.
- Take the flat rim off your Volkswagen Lupo.
- 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.
- Complete tightening the nuts with the socket wrench
How do you remove the stuck nuts from the rim of a Volkswagen Lupo?
Last part of our article, it might happen that to remove the rim of your Volkswagen Lupo you have to deal with stuck nuts. In this instance, you will have more or less the same possibilities 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 several minutes before unlocking the nuts. Another option, 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.
If you have any further questions about the Volkswagen Lupo, do not hesitate to consult our Volkswagen Lupo category.
