What to Do If Your Honda Gets a Flat Tire

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​A flat tire can be a real headache, but it doesn’t have to leave you stranded. As your Honda dealer, we want to tell you the easy steps to change that quickly and safely replace your tire and continue with your journey.

From Your Honda Dealer: The Easy Steps To Change a Flat Tire

Find a Safe Place

This is one of the most important steps. If your tire goes flat while driving, quickly scan the road ahead for a safe place to pull over. Ideally, you want a location as far from other vehicles as possible and has a flat, solid surface.

Secure Your Honda

Once you’ve parked, switch off your engine and apply the parking brake. If you’re parked on an incline, look around for rocks or other solid objects you can place around the other tires as an extra precaution to prevent the wheels from moving as you change the flat. Switch on your hazard lights if you have to park near other moving vehicles.

Grab Your Tools

Changing a flat requires only three items: a spare tire, a jack, and a tire iron. Once you’ve collected all three of them, you’re ready to change that tire.

Loosen The Lugs

Use the tire iron to loosen the lugs on the flat. The easiest way to do this is to attach the tire iron to a lug and then push down on the tire iron with your foot. Once the lugs are loose enough to turn by hand, it’s time to lift your car.

Jack Your Honda

Position your jack under the closest jack point to the flat. A jack point is a flat, reinforced part of the frame designed for lifting your car. Jack your car until the flat lifts off the ground.

Replace The Tire

Unscrew the lugs, lift the damaged tire off the hub, and replace it with the spare. Rotate the spare until the holes in the spare match the holes in the hub. Once the tire is correctly positioned, screw in the lugs and tighten them as securely as possible by hand.

Tighten The Lugs

Lower your Honda to the ground, then use the tire iron to tighten each lug as securely as possible. Now you’ve replaced the tire, pack the flat, jack, and tire iron back in their places and you’re ready to leave.

Once you’re on the road again, visit our service department at Rick Roush Honda in Medina, OH. Our technicians will install and balance a new tire while you wait.

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