Hey all, bought my 1999 Lude a while back and it's clearly time to rotate the tires on this thing. I use this only as a daily driver, so looking to this in the name of not having to buy a whole new set of tires anytime soon.

I searched and couldn't find anything on where exactly you can safely jack this car up to rotate the tires. I have a friend at work that has the equipment to jack a car up, but he is used to working with Mustangs of the early 90's style. I remember in auto tech being told by my teacher to be very careful with where you jack a car up to make sure that you don't screw the frame up.

So with a 1999 Prelude, what are you guys using to jack the car up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

man.. did you even look under your car? Look under there and you will see a little metal tab next to each wheel. That is called a pinch rail. Jack it up there. Good luck

 

Another thing is... go to a professional place to rotate your tires. When you rotate your more than likely going to need a balance. Do you have a balancer machine? Go to your local discount tire and get it done free.

 

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having a post count of 662, you'd think he'd know better

 

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not to thread jack, but how much we talking about that you would need to get them totally rebalanced after each tire rotation? And free re balancing?

 

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not to thread jack, but how much we talking about that you would need to get them totally rebalanced after each tire rotation? And free re balancing?</TD></TR></TABLE>

i was thinking the same thing, dont your tires just need balancing if the tires are physically taken off the rim?

 

ya i don't see how your tires would need rebalencing unless you remove the tire from the rim.

 

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They don't, you only usually have to balance when seperating the tyre from the wheel, or you have lost a balance weight.
But to the OP to be honest, I feel that if you are not competent enough to know how to jack the car up in the first place, that in the interests of your own safety, you should take the car to a tyre centre to get the work done. Not being funny but you don't want the car dropping on you, just watch how the tyre centre do it and learn.

 

You don't need to balance your tires unless something has happened like a weight falling off. I'm sure you would have noticed, though. Just do it in your driveway.