If You Have a Flat Tire
Storing the Folding Spare Tire Before returning the folding spare tire to its compartment, you must let out all the air. It will fold back to its original space saving shape.
The folding spare tire must be off the ground when you let the air out. It is best to deflate the folding spare tire while it is still mounted on the car. This prevents foreign material from being trapped between the wheel and tire. 20. Store the jack, wheel wrench, 21. Temporarily keep the wing bolt extension, air pump, pressure in the trunk as well. See Replac- 1. If the folding spare tire is still on gauge, screwdriver and flat tire in ing Tires and Wheels on page the car, follow the instructions the trunk. 173 for tire replacement. under Changing a Flat Tire to loosen the wheel nuts and jack up To store the flat tire, put a sheet the car. of paper on the contact surface of the tire and the trunk well as shown in the illustration. Slide the tire in the trunk well with the outside surface of the aluminum wheel facing up. CONTINUED
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2. Unscrew and remove the folding 3. Remove the rubber cover on top of 4. As the tire deflates, it will fold back spare tire valve cap. the valve cap. Use the notch on the to its original shape. When the air valve cap to unscrew the spare tire stops coming out of the tire, use valve core until the air starts the notch on the valve cap to coming out. Use your hand to tighten the valve core. shield your eyes. The valve core can fly out under pressure.
Keep your fingers and clothing away as the tire deflates and folds back to its compact size.
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VALVE CAP
5. Put the rubber cap back on the 6. Remove the folding spare tire and 7. Store the folding spare tire in the valve cap. Screw the valve cap install the original tire and wheel front compartment with the back on the folding spare tire nuts. Lower the car and tighten outside surface of the wheel valve. the wheel nuts securely in a criss- contacting the bracket of the spare cross pattern. Tighten to: tire well. Securely tighten the wing bolt. 110 N.m (11 kg-m, 80 Ib-ft)
Taking Care of the Unexpected If You Have a Flat Tire
Air Pump Folding Spare Tire This tire gives a harsher ride and The air pump that comes with your Your car comes with a folding spare less traction on some road surfaces NSX is designed specifically to inflate tire. Use this spare tire as a tempo- than the regular tire. Use greater the folding spare tire. rary replacement only. Get your caution while driving on this tire. Follow these precautions: regular tire replaced and put back on your car as soon as you can. The spare tire is smaller than the Connect the air pump only to a regular tire, reducing your car's 12 V car battery. Connecting it to Follow these precautions whenever ground clearance. Such things as any other power source could you are using the folding spare tire: road debris and parking lot speed damage the air pump. bumps could possibly damage the Inflate or deflate the spare tire only underside of your car. Applying oil to any component of when it is on the car. Inflating it on the air pump is not necessary. the ground may trap stones or Do not take your car to an auto- other foreign matter between the matic car wash when the spare tire The surface of the air pump will tire and the wheel rim. is mounted. Because of the re- become hot during use. Do not duced ground clearance, the touch the air pump while in use. Do not exceed 50 mph (80 km/h) underside of your car could be under any circumstances. damaged by the mechanism that Continuous operation for more pulls the car through the car wash. than 15 minutes could damage the air pump. Let it cool down before using it again.
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