Toyota RAV4: Installing the tire - If you have a flat tire (vehicles with standard tires) - Essential information - When trouble arises - Toyota RAV4 Owner's ManualToyota RAV4: Installing the tire

Remove any dirt or foreign matter

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

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

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

Turn the nut washers until they come into contact with the disc wheel.

3 Lower the vehicle.

Type A

Type B

Type B

Type C

Type C

Firmly tighten each nut two or

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

17-inch and 18-inch wheels

Stowing the flat tire

    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
    1 Remove any dirt or foreign matter from the disc wheel seat and the wheel contact surface. Vehicles with aluminum wheels and a steel wheel for the spare: Remove the plastic rings from the wh ...

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