How to change a car tyre

Title:  How to change a car tyre

Duration: 2:50 minutes

Description:

A video to show someone how to change a motorcycle tyre

Shell Motoring Tips - How to change a car tyre – Transcript

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Atmospheric, storytelling and soft background music; the same music continues throughout the video.

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Screen starts with a white backdrop as the shell lock-up enters from the right of the picture while the video title text slides into the middle of the screen.

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How to change a car tyre

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If your car feels odd to drive, you may have a flat tyre. Don’t panic, we’ll walk you through what to do.

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Screen transitions to a page that lists the product names and pictures detailing exactly what a user will need to be able to perform the task of changing the oil on a motorcycle.

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What you’ll need:

• Car jack
  
• Wheel brace wrench
• Gloves
• Spare wheel

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Here’s what you’ll need; a car jack, a wheel brace wrench, a pair of gloves and a spare wheel.

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Screen transitions to a page that lists the other products that might be useful to have while changing a car’s tyre.

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And these also might help:

• A warning triangle
• Cleaning rags
• And a torch

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the first step of the process.

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1 – Get ready

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Screen transitions into a white walled workshop with a red four-door car in the centre of the room with the front of the car facing left.

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Park safely

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Find a safe place to stop, preferably away from the road, on hard and level ground.

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The screen transitions to an interior shot of the car from the driver’s perspective, the driver proceeds to turn the keys in the ignition off with his right hand and then pull the handbrake up with his left.

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Switch off the engine

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Once you’ve stopped the car, turn off the engine and apply the handbrake.

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The screen transitions into a shot of the driver pressing the hazard warning lights button that is in the centre of the car’s dashboard.

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Turn on hazard lights

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Pop on your hazard warning lights for safety.

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The screen transitions to shot of the boot of the car that is fully open. The driver pulls out an orange warning triangle from the left of the boot and extends open the four legs.

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Place triangle

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And if you have a warning triangle, place it at least 45 meters behind your car on the same side of the road.

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The screen transitions to a shot of the driver pulling the spare wheel out from underneath the carpet that lines the boot of the car. He then proceeds to drop the carpet back down once the wheel is fully removed.

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Get the spare wheel

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Get the spare wheel and all the equipment you’ll need from the boot.

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The screen then transitions to a shot of close up of the back right tyre of the car, the driver has a wheel brace wrench in his hand and he proceeds to loosen each of the 5 nuts slightly by turning them with the wrench. 

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Loosen the wheel nuts

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Now you’re ready to remove the deflated wheel. Take off any wheel hubs or inserts, exposing the wheel nuts. Remove any wheel nut covers and store safely. To loosen them up, you may need to use your foot and body weight.

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the second step of the process.

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2 – Jack up the car

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The driver slides down onto the floor next to the vehicle, he then rubs his hand over the underside of the car about a foot away from the back wheel.

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Locate the jack point

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Between the wheels, along the underside of the car, find the jacking point. This is where the jack lifts the car. The jack can only be used at this point to lift the car as it’s strengthened, using other locations may cause damage or a jack failure.

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He uses his left hand to hold the base of the jack so it stays steady while tightening.

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Raise the car

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It’s helpful to hold the base of the jack to keep it in place as you raise it.

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The driver continues to turn the screw at the end of the jack around to prop the car up into the air. Now with the car off the ground, the driver places the new wheel under the car next to the jack.

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Slide the spare wheel under the car

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Once the deflated tyre starts to raise off the ground, you’re nearly there, but keep going until there’s enough space to place the spare wheel under the sill of the car for safety in case the jack fails.

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the third step of the process.

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3 – Remove wheel

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The screen transitions back to the driver with the end of wheel brace wrench in his left hand. He places the wrench on one of the wheel nuts and continues to spin the wrench around quickly with his right hand to loosen the nut; once the nut is completely unscrewed he takes it and places it on the floor next to the wheel and starts loosening another nut.

He continues to do this for all the nuts until the wheel is no longer screwed into the car. The driver proceeds to take the wheel off the axel and rolls it away towards himself.

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Undo the wheel nut

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Now, unscrew and remove the loosened wheel nuts, and store them safely, ready for reuse. Hold the wheel in place until you are ready to remove it. Slowly pull the wheel towards you, being careful, as it may be heavy.

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the fourth step of the process.

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4 – Fit spare wheel

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The screen transitions back to a close up of the wheel axel with no wheel attached. The driver slides the new wheel onto the axel and then starts to place the wheel nuts back into the car with his right hand, he turns each one slightly but secures them all with the wheel brace wrench.

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Fit the spare wheel

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Now, unscrew and remove the loosened wheel nuts, and store them safely, ready for reuse. Hold the wheel in place until you are ready to remove it. Slowly pull the wheel towards you, being careful, as it may be heavy.

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the fifth step of the process.

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5 – lower car

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The driver removes the old wheel out from underneath the car and leaves it next to the vehicle. He then proceeds to lower the jack down so the car wheel that was in the air is now just touching the floor.

He then goes back to the wheel and tightens each one of the nuts again to make sure they are fully secured.

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Lower the jack

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Now slowly start to lower the jack until the tyre is touching the floor, but don’t lower it all the way. You’re nearly done, just give the nuts a final tighten and put the nut covers and wheel hubs back on.

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the sixth step of the process.

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6 – Pack away

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The screen transitions to a shot of the driver standing in front of the open boot of the car. He opens up the carpet and places the flat tyre back where the new tyre was retrieved. He then places the jack and wrench on top and closes the carpet down.

He also folds away the plastic triangle and returns it to the left hand storage hole in the boot.

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Pack everything away

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Put everything back into the boot as you found it and don’t forget to collect the warning triangle. Now that you’re all done, it’s worth remembering that if your car has a space saving tyre, it may have a reduced speed limit, such as 80 km/h as well as a limited kilometers so it’s better to replace it as soon as possible.

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The screen transitions to the driver climbing back into the front of the car and sitting in the drivers seat; he proceeds to turn off the hazard warning lights with his left hand and then start the car using the keys in the ignition with his right.

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The screen transitions into a completely white summary screen in which text slides into the middle of the shot from right to left. This text details a quick six-step summary of how to complete this task of lubricating a motorcycle chain.

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Summary:

1. Get ready
2. Jack up car
3. Remove wheel
4. Fit spare wheel
5. Lower car
6. Pack away

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The screen transitions into another completely white summary screen in which text slides into the middle of the shot from right to left that states the sign off caption:

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Here’s to better journeys

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The final transition is to a white screen with the Shell Pecten already present in the middle of the shot. The Shell Go Well caption slides in from left to right, sitting under the logo at the centre of the screen.

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Shell Mnemonic plays lasting only 2 seconds

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Go Well