
- Make sure the car is off the road, drive on the rim if needed a few feet to get to a safer location.
- Place the car in park, turn off the engine, lock the emergency brake.
- With the lug wrench, loosen the lugs a turn while the tire still touches the ground.
- Jack the car into the air until the flat tire clears the road surface, now loosen all those lug nuts all the way.
- Remove the lugs, carefully take off the flat tire, replace with the spare tire, replace the lugs hand tight, lower the car.
- Now tighten all the lug nuts tightly.