WHY won't my wheels come off!?
 

okay soo i'm having a bad day and last night my friend gave me some rims so i was like forreal?. SO today i figured i'd put them on only to find out my wheel won't come off...what am i doing wrong?... i have a 2000 civic ex, i jacked up the wheel took off the four lugs and then nothing...is there more to the process?...ooh and so i put it back together and moved my car to find out now it squeaks?!?! can anyone help me out and make my day better? thanks guys...

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Try hard, bang them off, they're probably rusted on or something.

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yea i did, i punched and kicked and pushed and pulled...and then to top it off now it squeells..(<--sound it out bc i don't think i can spell)...and yea so tomorrow i am going to attempt again but with wd40 maybe it will break it off...

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haha yea and with my luck i'll loose a wheel some magical way lol...but if all else fails i will most likely try it lol so thanks for the good idea i'll try it tomorw

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Thats odd. Hmm... in for what happens with this.

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I had to bang the wheels of my GF's Camry a while back with a sledgehammer. Just lie under the car and whack towards the outside. Rust is almost certainly the issue.

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For the noise you may have bent the thin metal plate against the brake rotor and it could be scraping ??

I always wire brush the area and wipe down mating surfaces with WD-40 each tire rotation to keep them from sticking.

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^ I Never thought about that... hmm. I'm out in oregon, no salt on the roads... so we really dont have any rust on our cars no matter how old they are.

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There's a tool for getting them off.
It has..three prong things. Two things clip on either side of the rotor, the middle goes on the middle part where there's space. Then like turnicette (spell check) you turn and then pops off rotor.

Have you tried crowbar?

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ok sooo today i got at it once again and i got it using the hammer and wd40 worked nice and i wiped the pad and played with the pad a little so the sound is gone i hope its not temporarily but we shall see..and then the best part is..the rims didnt work lmao. they were "universal" allwell..thanks guess helped alot and i also cleaned the inside part of the rim that sits on the rotor with wd40 so it wont stick hopefully thanks again

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X2 yea if u grease up the whole lug the wheel shouldnt stick and the bolts would be easier too

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take off all the lugs then from the back side of the wheel bang it with a big rubber hammer and it will sure come off. but kee on rotating the tire while u do it.