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MOBILITY
4.
Remove your hand from the jack as soon as
the jack is under load and continue to turn
the jack crank or lever with one hand.
5.
Make sure that the base of the vehicle jack is
extended perpendicular to and at right angles
underneath the jacking point.
6.
Make sure that the base of the jack is exten‐
ded perpendicular to and at right angles be‐
low the jacking point.
7.
Raise by cranking until the jack is supported
on the ground with its entire surface and the
wheel in question is at most 3 cm, 1.2 inches
off the ground.
Fitting a wheel
Only fit one emergency wheel at most, as re‐
quired.
1.
Unscrew the wheel studs.
2.
Remove the wheel.
3.
Put on the new wheel or emergency wheel
and tighten at least two wheel studs cross‐
wise until finger-tight.
If non-original light alloy wheels not from the
vehicle manufacturer are fitted, the wheel
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Wheels and tyres
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studs belonging to the wheels may also have
to be used.
4.
Tighten the remaining wheel studs until fin‐
ger-tight and then tighten all the wheel studs
crosswise.
5.
Turn the jack crank anticlockwise to retract
the jack and lower the vehicle.
6.
Remove the jack and stow it securely.
After changing the wheel
1.
Tighten the wheel studs crosswise. The
tightening torque is 140 Nm, approximately
101 lb ft.
2.
Stow the faulty wheel in the boot, if neces‐
sary.
Due to its size, the faulty wheel cannot be ac‐
commodated under the boot floor.
3.
Check tyre inflation pressure at the next op‐
portunity and correct as necessary.
4.
Reinitialise the runflat indicator RPA.
Reset the Tyre Pressure Monitor TPM.
5.
Check the tight fit of the wheel studs using a
calibrated torque wrench.
6.
Drive to the nearest Service Partner of the
manufacturer or another qualified Service
Partner or a specialist workshop to have the
damaged tyre replaced.

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