Boosting Tires Fast and Safe?

 
Jakarta, KompasOtomotif - Boosting the car, whether it wouldreplace the tires due to flat or would like to see the condition ofthe trap, not an easy task. Contrived vehicle owners could be bothered if misplaced it. Another result, car components can be damaged.

Afat, Head of Motorsport at the numbers Workshop AFJ DurenSawit, East Jakarta, providing tips on the appropriate placement of the jack. "Actually, in the manual of every car have no cluelaying the jack is good and right. There's even a simpleprocedure for changing a tire in accordance with the characterand type of car," explained Afat.

If the manual had not the (lost), perhaps the information below canhelp, especially to model the jack (standard) form diamondshaped.

sedan
Position the jack is provided at the bottom under the front door(for the front tires) and rear. There are a kind of steel plates areinserted into the hole sticking to the top of the jack.

Do not jack up under the arm because of the component.Because, besides the material is not strong, the tires are notlifted only sokbreker are under pressure.

MPV and SUV
Types MPV that uses the framework of the chassis can be usedto boost the fulcrum. Same position as in the sedan, to the frontwheels under the front door and under the rear wheels under theback door. If MPV bersasis monokok, position the jack just likethe sedan.

In addition at that position, to MPV and SUV, the front arm on the inside that attach the chassis can be used as a place that fits.Besides being more powerful can lift with good tires.

Do not forget, before the boost make sure the parking brake is activated or able to block the tire with a stone or beam on thetires are not inflated. If you do it on the roadside safety trianglepairs also a few meters from the location of the car as a markerof other road users.
source: kompas.com
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