• carzian@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Related pro tip, if you’re changing a flat tire and don’t have any jack stands, place the spare/damaged wheel under the car while you’re working on it. Better to have the car fall on the wheel then potentially your leg

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      11 months ago

      Why would you be under a vehicle to change a flat? You just sitting at the wheel legs under the car?

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        11 months ago

        If no one told you not to, you wouldn’t know not to.
        “My knees hurt from kneeling fussing with the nuts, but I still need to be close…”

    • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
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      11 months ago

      I do this anytime I take a wheel off, even with jack stands. Doesn’t hurt anything and I’ll take anything extra between the chassis and my head I can get.