NXOwner

I rotated the tires on my NX this past weekend...

typocl

I was hoping you'd have the drone hover around as you did the rotation.

And everyone, keep watching for the outtakes at the end. I was hoping for a "FLUFFY, get out of my camera view!"

NXOwner

ha-ha! I don't think my neighbors would appreciate one of my drones flying around so close to their windows!

corradoMR2

Haha. Love the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood start!

Torii

where is the car washing vid with roomates/neighbors and ofc your dog?

Drtbk4ever

My question is where is the jack point he is using?

NXOwner

Ha-ha! That's not for this type of forum!

NXOwner

Great question!

For this particular rotation procedure, I placed the floor_jack plate to the side of the normal jack points and jack point guides. The reason is because I wanted to place the jack_stands on the jack points.

Keep in mind that I do not keep all the weight of the vehicle on the floor_jack. All the weight in on the jack_stands and the floor_jack is just there to catch it in an emergency, should a jack_stand give way.

Sometimes, if I just need to get one rear wh-eel off the ground I use this alternative jackpoint (the towhook), again, just long enough to place a jack_stand at the recommended jack point...




If I need to get both rears off the ground, I'll use this jackpoint...



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Here's a closer view...




Some of you may ask, "Why not use the receiver_hitch (tow hitch)?" I thought of that, but the hitch is too high for the floor_jack. It'll lift the vehicle, but not enough to clear the ttire completely off the ground.

NXOwner

^^^ What a pain in the you-know-what to obfuscate the various words in the above post. Certain words are automatically hyperlinked to eBay and I didn't want that. Is this something new to Club Lexu5, or is it something on my browser that's doing it? If I have to obfuscate each time, well, I'll write a program to do it for me! LOL!

TechNut

Must be that Internet Explorer! . Isn't doing that in my Chrome on IOS. I have never seen that behavior before but it sounds like some sort of E-Bay plugin.

d8168055

NXOwner, you can put blocks of wood to give you more height as well.

dvdmull

Nice post. So recommended rotation is front to back? Is this the same for a AWD? Also what was the torque you set the bolts at?

Great post.......

Thanks

NXOwner

It depends if your tires are unidirectional. If not, then you can criss-cross the tires. In the video I just happened to do it that way (same side/direction). I have since crossed them on subsequent rotations.

76 ft/lbs

Thanks!