BMW 316I, Owner'S Handbook Manual

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Spare wheel or compact spare wheel
– stowed beside the jack
Unscrew the wing nut, see arrow, by
hand, remove the retainer and lift out
the wheel
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Wheel stud wrench – in the car's
toolkit, under the luggage compart-
ment lid, see page 134.
Procedure
1. Note the safety precautions on the
previous page
2. Prevent the car from rolling away:
place the wheel chock behind the
front wheel on the side opposite to
where the wheel is to be removed
(or in front of the front wheel on a
downhill gradient). If the car cannot
be moved to a point on a less
severe gradient, you must protect it
reliably against rolling away
3. Full-width wheel covers*: insert fin-
gers into the vent holes and pull the
cover off
4. Slacken the wheel studs by 1/2
turn. If the car has light-alloy
wheels*, see the description of
lockable studs on page 143
5. Offer the jack up to the mounting
point nearest to the wheel that is to
be removed, see arrows, with the
base of the jack vertically beneath
the mounting point and with its
entire surface in contact with the
ground; when the jack is raised by
turning the handle, its head must
enter the rectangular recess in the
mounting point, see detail in next
picture
6. Continue to turn the crank handle
until the wheel you wish to change
is lifted clear of the ground
7. Take out the wheel studs and
remove the wheel
Wheel-changing
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