Start by placing a brick or rock behind your car’s tires so that it does not roll, making sure the car is not on an incline or hill. Next, you will need to pry off the wheel cover with a screwdriver by placing it where the cover meets the wheel. After doing this, loosen the tire lug nuts with your wrench by turning counterclockwise but be careful not to remove them yet. 

Once you have loosened the tire lug nuts, you need to use the jack and jack up the car roughly six inches above the ground. Then place the jack under the edge of the car near the wheel you are changing. Afterward, simply remove the loosened lug nuts, take off the tire and replace it with the spare tire. Then lower the car back down and tighten the lug nuts clockwise before replacing the cover. 

7. Checking and Changing Car Oil and Water

If you have a car and want it to keep running for years to come, you need to continuously check the car’s fluids and change them when needed. The most important fluids to check are your oil and water. A car that runs without these fluids is susceptible to incredible damage, which could end up costing you a fortune in replacement parts. 

To check and change your car’s water and oil is easy, and ideally, you should check once a month. When you want to check and change your car’s water, you need to open your bonnet and locate the water bottle. 

Once you have found the bottle, you can easily look at it to see how much water has been used, as it will be transparent. If there is not enough water, simply top it up using a water jug or hose. 

To check the oil, you will need to locate the oil dipstick that has a minimum and maximum mark on the bottom of it. You will see this mark by drawing the stick out. If the oil mark shows that it is less than the minimum, you need to top up the oil.