 Is there a secret to removing BMW wheels? I have removed the bolts, kicked on the wheel and still they to not budge? Am I missing something? |
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Lean back, butt on the floor and brace your back against something and start kicking back and forth alternating with your right/left legs on the outer edge of the tire. Just keep whomping on it hard back and forth...she'll pop free! 
There is a tiny lip that the BMW wheel rests upon (aids you in holding the wheel onto the hub as you thread the bolts) and it can get stuck on the lip.
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Are you removing the tires or the wheels?
If just the wheels I would use a big rubber mallet and wrap on the tires after the lug nuts are out. Sometimes surface rust will hold them tight.
If removing tire, post back and I will reply with detailed instructions.
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I once had mine stuck so badly that the kick-'em hammer-'em routine didn't work. So I VERY slowly and VERY gently let the jack down until the wheel began to take up weight. That broke the seal.
Not for the faint of heart, and probably a really, really bad idea with a floor jack, but worked okay with the stock jack from the trunk. (At 10:00 at night with a 8" dump of snow predicted for the next day, I really didn't have any choice - I needed to get the winter wwheels and tires on RIGHT NOW).
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Quote: Lean back, butt on the floor and brace your back against something and start kicking back and forth alternating with your right/left legs on the outer edge of the tire. Just keep whomping on it hard back and forth...she'll pop free!
There is a tiny lip that the BMW wheel rests upon (aids you in holding the wheel onto the hub as you thread the bolts) and it can get stuck on the lip. | Does this also apply to run-flats? I had the same problem ealier this year when I wanted to add spacers. Rather than pay someone thirty bones, I decided to do it myself ( I have done before on my G35 and CLK with no problems). For the life of me, I couldn't get the frickin' front wheel off the hub!!!
Given, I didn't kick the thing as I assumed (don't you say it!) a $60K car wouldn't take well to that type of elbow grease. I read the manual and it said something about a special kit needed to remove run-flats. Not sure if the kit is needed to remove tire from wheel or wheet from hub?
Any advice?
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Quote: Does this also apply to run-flats? I had the same problem ealier this year when I wanted to add spacers. Rather than pay someone thirty bones, I decided to do it myself ( I have done before on my G35 and CLK with no problems). For the life of me, I couldn't get the frickin' front wheel off the hub!!!
Given, I didn't kick the thing as I assumed (don't you say it!) a $60K car wouldn't take well to that type of elbow grease. I read the manual and it said something about a special kit needed to remove run-flats. Not sure if the kit is needed to remove tire from wheel or wheet from hub?
Any advice? | Run-flats need special treatment to remove tire from wheel. Otherwise no different than any other tire to remove from wheel from hub, except for weight. RFT are very heavy.
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