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[05omegav6]

Should I change them myself or let the garage do it?

At least a 2.5 Jack, axle stands, and a torque wrench capable of 110nm will be needed.

Axle stands to change a wheel.

Wheres them multi folding steps gone,....  I need to change me wipers.

 
And a jack to get your car onto ramps

To change a wheel? Too much Northants  water again.

#idiot 

Says he who bites every single time...

If you have nothing to contribute, don't

[robson]

Have these wheels got tyres on?

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Just to add to the thread regarding the wheel studs. People go very 'health and safety' on the things, on the premise that there's no such thing as too tight. Well of course there is. Look at the design of the wheel, and hub, and you'll notice that the hub itself sticks out, and the central bore of the wheel actually sits on this. The wheel studs are there literally to hold the wheel against the hub. They don't - in the strictest engineering sense - hold 'any' weight (of course they do take some force in practice, otherwise they'd be made from plastic). But that's the function of wheel studs - to hold the wheel against the hub, thus allowing the hub to take the weight, as opposed to actually holding the wheel on the hub. For the same reason it's actually dangerous to fit a wheel from another vehicle with even the same PCD, but a different central bore. Because in that instance the wheel studs are actually taking the full weight of the car. 

[Kate]

Yes they have tyres on.

[Andy B]

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And a jack to get your car onto ramps

I've just done that with my daughter's Seicento ..... the front wheels had been driven up a a pair already though