Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by frosted-flakes on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:13PM
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You absolutely do not need any special equipment to change a wheel. In fact, the only equipment you need comes with the car, a jack and a wrench, and a spare wheel (or at least they used to). Sure, you need to buy the tires, but you also need to buy the battery.
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Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by shuckles on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:56PM
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The tool to mount a tire onto a wheel costs between $50 and $2500 dollars and is very large. The alternative - a spare wheel - is a kludge! Cars carry around an entire tire and wheel all the time in a special compartment because you can't expect people to mount tires themselves. Or modern cars spec run flat tires which come with a host of their own tradeoffs.
Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by snowwrestler on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:24PM
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Which one inflates the new tires, the jack or the wrench?
Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by frosted-flakes on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:49PM
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The tire shop who mounted the tires on the wheels, or a simple bike pump.
Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by mynameisvlad on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:09PM
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But I thought changing the wheels was a simple process you could do at home with the tools provided with the car?
A bike pump and a tire shop aren't provided with the car. Hell, most don't come with jacks or a wrench either. Some won't even include a spare tire/wheel nowadays.
Re:Apple Shipped Me a 79-Pound iPhone Repair Kit to Fix a 1....
by snowwrestler on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:42PM
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Repairs can be pretty easy when you pay someone else in a shop to do the hard part for you.
In my case, replacing my iPhone battery required no tools at all after I paid the Apple shop to mount the new battery in the phone.