Toyota RAV4: Installing the tire
Remove any dirt or foreign matter from the wheel contact surface. If foreign matter is on the wheel contact surface, the wheel nuts may loosen while the vehicle is in motion, and the tire may come off the vehicle.
2 Install the tire and loosely tighten each wheel nut by hand by approximately the same amount.
Replacing a steel wheel with a steel wheel
Tighten the nuts until the tapered portion comes into loose contact with the disc wheel seat.
Replacing an aluminum wheel with a steel wheel
Tighten the nuts until the tapered portion comes into loose contact with the disc wheel seat.
Replacing an aluminum wheel with an aluminum wheel
Turn the nut washers until they come into contact with the disc wheel.
3 Lower the vehicle.
Type A
Type B
Type C
Firmly tighten each nut two or
three times in the order shown in
the illustration.
Tightening torque:
76 ft•lbf (103 N•m, 10.5 kgf•m)
5 Reinstall the wheel ornament.
16-inch wheel
17-inch and 18-inch wheels
Replacing a flat tire
Chock the tires. 2 Remove the wheel ornament using the wheel nut wrench as shown below. 16-inch wheel To protect the wheel ornament, place a rag between the wrench and the wheel ornament, ...Stowing the flat tire
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