Navara_cruz
Member
Now I'm not sure how many of you guys have ever had a flat tyre in the Navara but I had one the other day at a building site. 2 steel bars made very easy pickings of my back left tyre.
Now being a bloke and knowing how these things work it seemed like a very easy fix at the the time, just change the tyre with the diamond jack that was issued with the car and we will be away again, NO thats not how it went down at all.
The problems I had at first was getting the jack out of the car from behind the back seat. This was so tightly wound up that I needed a long screw driver to assist in turning the end so I could unscrew it enough to remove.
Secondly When finding the correct lifting point on the car at maxium lift on the jack is was more than noted that the wheel with the flat tyre was still on the ground, the jack wasn't tall enough, not allowing the wheel to be removed and the spare to be put on....Now this could have been the ground I was on or they have given me a Nissan Pulsar jack instead.
My main concern is if my wife was driving the car and had a flat, even if she could change the tyre by herself, could she do it with what Nissan has given us.
Has anyone else used their diamond jack and was it up the task?
I have never been a fan of these and have since placed the wheel under jack in the back.
Now being a bloke and knowing how these things work it seemed like a very easy fix at the the time, just change the tyre with the diamond jack that was issued with the car and we will be away again, NO thats not how it went down at all.
The problems I had at first was getting the jack out of the car from behind the back seat. This was so tightly wound up that I needed a long screw driver to assist in turning the end so I could unscrew it enough to remove.
Secondly When finding the correct lifting point on the car at maxium lift on the jack is was more than noted that the wheel with the flat tyre was still on the ground, the jack wasn't tall enough, not allowing the wheel to be removed and the spare to be put on....Now this could have been the ground I was on or they have given me a Nissan Pulsar jack instead.
My main concern is if my wife was driving the car and had a flat, even if she could change the tyre by herself, could she do it with what Nissan has given us.
Has anyone else used their diamond jack and was it up the task?
I have never been a fan of these and have since placed the wheel under jack in the back.