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Tires: Service and Repair
Tires, With Run-Flat Tires

Tires, with Run-Flat Tires

=> [ Tire, Pressing Off ] 

=> [ Tires, Dismounting ] 

=> [ Tires, Mounting ] 

Tire, Pressing Off

CAUTION!
‹› Note the safety precautions. Refer to => [ Safety Precautions for Run-Flat Tires, Removing and Mounting ] See: Service

Precautions/Safety Precautions For Run-Flat Tires, Removing and Mounting.

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Release air from tires, unscrew the nickel-coated valve insert to do so.

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When pressing off tire on a tire dismounting/mounting machine with press-off blade, always make sure that tire valve/tire pressure sensor -  arrow
- is located opposite the press-off blade - 1 -. 

‹› Press-off blade must be applied at maximum 2 cm removed from rim flange. 

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Remove balancing weights and coarse dirt from disc wheel.

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Press off both tire beads around circumference while thoroughly applying tire mounting paste between tire and rim flange - arrow -. 

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