Ford Sierra

1982-1993 of release

Repair and operation of the car



Ford Siyerra
- 1.2. Identification of the car
   1.3. Raising of the car
   1.4. Towage
   1.5. Combination of devices
   1.6. Cowl
   1.7. Start of the engine
   1.8. Lighting and alarm system
   1.9. Replacement of bulbs
   1.10. Ventilation and heating of salon
   1.11. Doors
   1.12. The hatch and a luggage carrier on a roof
   1.13. Seats and head restraints
   1.14. Mirrors
   1.15. Control bulb of fastening of seat belts
   1.16. Replacement of a wheel
+ 2. Maintenance
+ 3. General data
+ 4. Engines
+ 5. Coupling
+ 6. Transmissions
+ 7. Driveshaft and back bridge
+ 8. Steering
+ 9. Suspension brackets
+ 10. Brake system
+ 11. Body
+ 12. Electric equipment


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1.16. Replacement of a wheel

GENERAL INFORMATION

Cars with a body of Berlin and the Sedan

To remove a covering of a trunk floor and the protective disk closing a spare wheel. This disk is kept by a latch which should be turned to the left on 1/8 turn.
The spare wheel is attached by a long bolt.
The jack is fixed on a back wall.

Cars with a body of Kombi

The spare wheel and jack are located in the depth of a luggage carrier in two offices closed by the covers withheld by latches for which unblocking it is necessary to turn them on 1/4 turn.
The jack is located under a floor covering in a niche on the right side.

Replacement

PERFORMANCE ORDER
1. To install the car on a firm horizontal surface.
2. To tighten the emergency brake and to turn on the reverse gear.
3. In case replacement of a wheel is made on an inclined surface, it is necessary to prop up one of car wheels in addition to record it, thus, from possible rolling.
4. To get a spare wheel; a jack and a key for bolts of fastening of wheels.
5. By means of the screw-driver to take off a decorative cap from the removed wheel.
6. Before a raising of the car to weaken bolts of fastening of a wheel.
7. To insert the jack lever as it is possible more deeply to the place provided for it in a body near the replaced wheel (And – deepening in the lower part of a body, In – an opening).
8. To incline the top part of a jack as it is possible closer to a body and rotating the handle to lift the car.
9. To unscrew bolts and to remove a wheel.
10. To establish a spare wheel and to screw up fastening bolts.
11. To lower the car, to take a jack and to tighten bolts "on a cross" the corresponding moment.
12. To install a decorative cap on a wheel drive.
13. To put back in a luggage carrier a jack, a key for bolts of wheels and the removed wheel.