1998 OLDSMOBILE INTRIGUE Owners Manual

Changing a Flat Tire
If a tire goes flat, avoid further tire and wheel damage
by driving slowly
to a level place. Turn on your hazard
warning flashers.
Changing a tire can cause an injury. The vehicle
can slip off the jack and roll over you or other
people. You and they could be badly injured.
Find a level place to change your tire.
To help
prevent the vehicle from moving:
1. Set the parking brake firmly.
2. Put the shift lever in PARK (P).
3. Turn off the engine.
To be even more certain the vehicle won’t move,
you can put blocks at the front and rear of the
tire farthest away from the one being changed.
That would be the tire on the other side of the
vehicle, at the opposite end.
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The following steps will tell you how to use the jack and
change a
tire.
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Removing the Spare Tire and Tools
The equipment you’ll
need
is in the trunk.
Pull the carpeted mat up
from the floor
of the trunk.
Turn the center nut
on the compact spare cover to the
left to remove it. Then lift and remove the cover.
Remove the spare tire.
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C
Turn the nut holding the jack to the left and remove it.
Then remove the jack and wrench. The
tools you'll be using include the jack (A), extension
and protectodguide
(B) and wheel wrench (C).
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1. Using the wheel wrench, remove plastic nut, loosen all the wheel nuts. Don't remove them yet.
2. Turn the jack handle to the left to raise the jack lift
head
a few inches.
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J REAR EDBE OF FRONT
WHEEL OPENING
For jacking at the vehicle's front location, put the
jack lift head about
8 inches (20 cm) from the rear
edge of the front wheel opening
or just behind the
two bolts as shown.
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OFF - SET
FRONT EDGE OF
REAR WHEEL
OPENING
For jacking at the vehicle’s rear location, put the jack
lift head about
6 inches (15 cm) from the front edge
of the rear wheel opening or just behind the off-set
as shown.
Put the compact spare tire near
you.
Getting under a vehicle when it is jacked up is
dangerous. If the vehicle slips
off the jack, you
could be badly injured or killed. Never get under
a vehicle when it is supported only by a jack.
Raising your vehicle with the jack improperly
positioned can damage the vehicle and even
make the vehicle
fall. To help avoid personal
injury and vehicle damage, be sure
to fit the jack
lift head into the proper location before raising
the vehicle.
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i 3. Raise the vehicle by turning the jack handle to the
right. Raise the vehicle far enough
off the ground for
the spare tire
to fit under the vehicle.
4. Remove all wheel nuts and take off the flat tire.
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5. Remove any rust or dirt
from the wheel bolts,
mounting surfaces and spare wheel.
A CAUTION:
Rust or dirt on the wheel, or on the parts to
which
it is fastened, can make the wheel nuts
become loose after
a time. The wheel could come
off and cause an accident. When you change
a
wheel, remove any rust or dirt from the places
where the wheel attaches to the vehicle.
In an
emergency, you can use
a cloth or a paper towel
to do this; but be sure to use a scraper or wire
brush later, if you need to, to get all the rust or
dirt off.
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I A CAUTION:
Never use oil or grease on studs or nuts. If you
do, the nuts might come loose. Your wheel could
fall
off, causing a serious accident.
6. Replace the wheel nuts with the rounded end of the
nuts
toward the wheel. Tighten each nut by hand
until the wheel is held against the hub.
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7. Lower the vehicle by turning the jack handle to the
lee. Lower the jack completely.
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9.
Tighten the wheel nuts
My in a crisscross
sequence as shown.
Replace
plastic nut caps
snug tight with hand.
Using wheel wrench.
tighten caps an
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Incorrect wheel nuts or improperly tightened
wheel nuts can cause the wheel to become loose
and even come
off. This could lead to an accident.
Be sure to use the correct wheel nuts.
If you have
to replace them, be sure to get new
GM original
equipment wheel nuts.
Stop somewhere as soon as you can and have
the nuts tightened with
a torque wrench to
100 lb-ft (140 Nom).
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