Posted by NCWayne on March 01, 2009 at 18:47:40 from (166.82.169.10):
Just read the thread below about the boys nowdays not knowing how to jump start a car, and the resulting posts about changing tires, etc. Thing is all of that info is in the owners manual if someone takes the time to read it and can follow instructions...and it's a good thing.
I say this because a year or so back a guy of I know through work called and asked me if I'd run right down the road from my house and change the tire on his wifes SUV. It was raining and she and a friend were "stranded". Being an equipment mechanic by trade I figured this will be a snap, no problems, I'll even take my service truck and floor jack to simplify things. So I hop in the truck and off I go. I get there and she calls her husband to let him know I've arrived. In the meantime I find the spare under the back.....BUT HOW THE HECK DO I GET IT DOWN FROM WHERE IT'S HANGING???? There's no nut, nothing, just a flat plate with what looked to be a cable running through the middle of it. You don't know how embarrasing it was to have to ask for the manual to figure out how to remove the spare. Turned out there was a plugged opening with a odd ball sized square drive shaft in it, that only the tire tool would fit, that you turned to lower the tire down from where a winch had it hanging. Easy as pie to do but nearly impossible to find the plugged port, etc without the manual. I don't usually do newer cars...guess I'll know next time...
Forgot to mention I'd never met his wife before so she didn't know me. The funny thing was she was still on the phone with my buddy when I asked for the manual. He told me several days later that when I mentioned the manual she asked him just what kind of dumb a$$ mechanic did he call to change her tire, that had needed a manual to do it...
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