With the weather being the way it is having the car as low as it is and 165/50/15s on the vento I can't even get ot of my street. Went to swap for some fatter tyres on steelies but the wheel won't come off. When I put them on the centre bore seemed a bit small but not massively. Tried the hammer the top of the wheel and the bottom bit t hasn't freed it off. Tried hammering all around it and ended duo breaking the hammer, was a wooden handle on it.

Anyone go any bright ideas? Thinking about applying some heat but I dunno how good an idea that is.

I normally copper grease my wheels up but it was pissing it down when I put hem on so I sacked it off. Worst comes to worst I can cut the spokes off for better access but I'd rather not. But if it's a last resort I suppose I will. But can't do that till I can get down the unit and I don't really wanna be carless.

Kick the shit out of them, spin them, do the same again.

just don't do it on a widow maker if you can help it

So long as you're using a good jack that's easy to control (I generally use my nice big 3 tonne commercial jack where I turn the handle to drop). My last resort is normallly run the jack to the top and drop it. Have to be very careful how you do it though.

The problem is I only have a widdow maker. The big jack and the rest of the tools are down the unit. I could get down the unit but I dunno if I could get back up the bank. When it wasn't so bad my mate had to put on some fat tyres and drop them to about 15psi to get out. The snow is much worst now and my wheels are narrower than his. Saying that I could borrow my lasses car to get down there. Even then it's a gamble.

I'm off work tomorrow so I know what I'll be doing, lol.

So long as you're using a good jack that's easy to control (I generally use my nice big 3 tonne commercial jack where I turn the handle to drop). My last resort is normallly run the jack to the top and drop it. Have to be very careful how you do it though.

Do you mean loosen off the wheel bolts, jack it up, drop it down so it gives it a bit of impact but not so it drop to the bottom of the jack? So it shocks it off basically. I think it might just have to gamble it. The only real super fat tyres I have are a set of slicks and they aren't going to help in this weather

Got any axel stands? Would be safer than jacks anyways! It's not frozen on is it?? Bit of warm water?

Yeah, do that, if that doesn't work, spin it 180degrees and do it again, then if it's stil on, spin it 90 degrees and do it again.

Last, last ditch is do the same, but put a brick under the wheel so it sorta bounces off that and comes your way a bit.

Always works, but can go wrong.

Failing that. Get some heat on it, btu you'll probably have to regrease your cv joint and wheel bearings afterwards and it's not good for brake cylinders and caliper seals either

tbh, fatter tyres aren't always best in snow. I find skinny tyres cut through it and you end up on fresh lower down snow not the on top sh1t thats been run over loads.

Jack it up and us a big hammer on the back of the wheeland do it all the way round.

or sit on the floor with the car jacked up and kick it with both feet.

Either way works for us kwik fit bodgers lol

Hitting it from behind is what I've been doing but it's had no joy.

I dunno what it is aboutthesetyres bit they just aren't cutting it in the snow. I'm not expecting it to be perfect but I'd like to be able to get about on the roads that everyone else seem to get about on. I'm thinking the slihtly wider 185s with a lower pressure will be more grippy than the ones I have at the mo. Plus the rolling radius will be as it should be on the car. The rolling radius at the mo is tiny!

tbh, fatter tyres aren't always best in snow. I find skinny tyres cut through it and you end up on fresh lower down snow not the on top sh1t thats been run over loads.

x2, thats why Landrovers, run skinnier wheels in winter! Those arn't in the know put the fattest tyres on, which is only good when there isn't only good land underneath the snow and you want to go on over the top!

yeah u want skinny in the snow

defo skinny tyres in the snow mate. The wider the tyre the more surface area there is to slip and the opposite way around in the dry.

I've never liked stretched tyres in the snow, it means the tyres are harder and skip over the top of the snow.

I think you're doing the right thing going for 185's on steelies.

The only suggestion I've got is to heat it up slightly with a blow torch, that should help abit and then try hammering it?

loosen the wheel bolt and go for a spin...doing some conering..hahah

drop the car on like 2 lose wheel bolts or hammer the fuck out of them.

Loosen all four wheel bolts, then drive back and forth a bit

skinny tyres for snow:

studded tyres help too if you've got them

do f you have a set of bearing pullers?

if you do can you turn the legs round so thay hook on to the in side of the wheel throw one of the holes in the wheel and use them to push the wheel away from the hub or disc. if you do it a bit at a time at 12oclock and at 6oclock on the wheel it shoud get it off of the hub..

hope you no what i mean or i will take a photo to show you what i mean lol

am digging the driving around abit with loose bolts

I truely believe putting these 185s on over the 165s will help my troubled self. I mean I can't get any grip what so ever at the moment. I'm always the toss pot holding up traffic because I can only do 5 / 10mph max cause I'm skidding all over the place when most other traffic is doing about 20mph. If I stop then its also game over which is really annoying and dangerous when you've just got to go into a junction blind and just hope no one is coming the other way. Cause if you slow down to whats considered safe you then have to rock the car for about 5 mins before it breaks free.

I've never used a shovel so much in my life.

i think kam's problem here is the stretch and therefore high PSI in the tyres.

185's with the correct pressure on the right sized rim should help.

Well it took 2 hours to shovel a space big enough to work in, get the car up and tried to drop the car on its wheels no joy. Hammered it and no joy. Eventually did the pikey thing and got a sledge hammer and got the wheel off. Its a bit flatter than when I started but its off none the less

The new wheel/tyre combo is much better. I can get up my street without having to break out the shovel every 5 meters

heartagram, use the tyres with the Biggest spaced tread and the thickest, add more to the width will make thinks alot worse