ladies Driving SuVs and 4x4s

[Mouldz]

My suspicions were confirmed on Saturday evening regarding these petite ladies and their huge SUVs.(smaller the lady ,bigger the vehicle)

My mates wife,(hes out of town),phones me Sat eve in a flat spin ,shes stuck with a flat 35km out town with her young daughter and her friend ,she cant even get the spare undone(Toyota Fortuner),and shes too scared to flag down a strange car,cant say I blame her

Anyway I shoot out on my white horse in my shining armour,I get there and I even have difficulty cranking the spare down,problem no 2.the jack that comes with the car if fitted in the recommended place cant even lift the car 3 inches off the ground,had to use a second jack from my car to get it high enough to fit the spare.

I am quite a strong bloke and even I had trouble loosening the wheel nuts,she could not even pick up the spare wheel.

Please chaps if your wife or g/f insists on driving one of these monsters provide her with a decent hydraulic jack and a decent spanner with a pipe for leverage,not everyone who stops is going to be a knight in shining armour,especially in areas like ours were you cant just phone AA(not alchoholics anonymous,The other one).

Just a bit off useless info on a Monday ,use it or loose it

P.S.I dont know about other makes but the Fortuners tools are basically useless,especially a lady

 

[AndriesH]

Hey Mouldie - very true.

I've thought of taking my girls onto the driveway and doing exactly that - show them where and how to do the basics of changing a tyre.
also a good point to see if they need the power assist of a longer steel pipe for the nuts.

credit to you.

 

[Mouldz]

AndriesH wrote:

Hey Mouldie - very true.

I've thought of taking my girls onto the driveway and doing exactly that - show them where and how to do the basics of changing a tyre.
also a good point to see if they need the power assist of a longer steel pipe for the nuts.

credit to you.

Ja nee ,three ladies stuck a long the road in the dark is a accident waiting to happen

 

[Craig Van der Poll]

I showed my missus the basics many years back and she even struggled with the Corolla she used to have!

Always a good idea to have a can of tyre repair in the bakkie for those unforeseen circumstances. Won"t be able to help in every situation but most flats will be repairable.

 

[AYOBA!]

you also get a power torque tool that plugs into the lighter socket...

 

[kopstamp]

good point sheldon!!

Showed my missus the other day!

 

[benniejordaan]

You get battery operated impact wrenches for loosening wheel nuts. Available from Adendorf and only about R450. Worth investing in one.

 

[JFE]

Reading all this 1 thing stand out, it is not the ladies driving SUV's and the like, it is those darn TOYOTA's that is the problem!!!!! Prado, Carolla, I see a clear trend developing.

 

[hndray]

Craig Van der Poll wrote:

I showed my missus the basics many years back and she even struggled with the Corolla she used to have!

Always a good idea to have a can of tyre repair in the bakkie for those unforeseen circumstances. Won"t be able to help in every situation but most flats will be repairable.

I agree wholeheartedly... you can teach the basics but a can or two of "tyre fix" makes life a whole lot easier and the few minutes required to use them greatly reduces the length of vulnerability when they are stuck on the road.

  Remember to teach the correct use of that "tyre fix"  in those basic lessons! 

 

[Fanie]

Wel nie al die dames is so pieperig nie. Een van my pelle het nou die dag sy naam met 'n plank geslaan tydens een van die 4 x 4 kursusse wat hy aangebied het.

Ons het so ruk terug 'n ma se swart dame in 'n smart karretjie gesien ry. Herder ouens as daar nou iets onpadwaardigs ooit was dan was dit dit ! Lyk asof as sy draai dan moet sy die bolyf so draai sodat die borste die stuurwiel draai... daar was nie plek vir haar hande ook op die stuurwiel nie. En hoe de joos kom sy daar in en uit !

 

[BigBen]

Thats why I leave my fishing spike in the car as a power lever to loosen the nuts.TAZZ...Daai nuts steek vas want die donnerse wheel wrench is 25cm oppie handel.

 

 

 

[Whitewash]

Thanks for posting this, it actually reminded me to replace the aerosol tyre weld in my bakkie.

Just as a case in point, a while ago we took a 21ft Butt Cat out and on the retrieval somehow damaged one of the tyres. The guy who owns the boat didn't have a spare wheel so we had to send someone to fetch a spare in Fish Hoek. Low and behold he arrives back with a flat spare. Luckily I had a can of aerosol tyre weld in my bakkie. That one can had enough oemf to inflate that tyre and get a 3 ton boat to the Total garage in Glen Cairn. It's a worth while investment. I also like this idea of the battery powered wrench.

Cheers

 

[hndray]

BigBen wrote:

Thats why I leave my fishing spike in the car as a power lever to loosen the nuts.TAZZ...Daai nuts steek vas want die donnerse wheel wrench is 25cm oppie handel.

t(((up((   You're so right! I use the long power bar from my socket set with the hexagon head fitting because those nuts can get really  TIGHT... Gotta invest in some COPPER-SLIP soon.

 

[MASTERBAIT]

Mouldie are you saying that the jack that comes with the Fortuner won't work.That is strange because loads of planing goes into building those cars.How did they get that one wrong.
I will have to try and take the wheel off and see how it goes.

 

[Mouldz]

MASTERBAIT wrote:

Mouldie are you saying that the jack that comes with the Fortuner won't work.That is strange because loads of planing goes into building those cars.How did they get that one wrong.
I will have to try and take the wheel off and see how it goes.

First off its one of those old fashion telescopic jacks,if that the right word ,have to use brute force just to turn it,fine it lifts the car enough off the ground to get the flat off but not enough to get the inflated spare back on

 

[AYOBA!]

I always keep a piece of off-cut plank 150mmx200mmx30mm in the bakkie to use underneath the jack, just in case...

 

[Alley Cat]

Ja its a good thing to train the women to do tyre changes and I can tell when you do the training in most cases you will find that its impossible for the women to even get the spare out never mind change the damn thing. Most vehicles require you to lie on the ground half under the vehicle and use a socket and power bar with extension to remove the spare.In most cases this bolt to be removed is rusted and/or caked with mud....there is just now way in hell a women with upset kids in the vehicle is going to lie on the ground and get this job done.