How to change a tyre or replace a flat tyre

A flat tyre can always happen. In your home country with your own car, but also here in New Zealand while on your Spaceships road trip. Your Spaceship is equipped with a spare tyre. To change a tyre is just as easy as on any regular car. If you have never changed a tyre before or you need a refresher course, the tips and videos on this page will help you out.

As a flat tyre is a non-mechanical fault the call-out costs of using the 24-hours roadside service by NZRA, will be your cost regardless of the insurance option you have selected. See for more info our Terms & Conditions.

Safety tips before you change the tyre

• No one should be in your Spaceship when replacing a tyre.
• Make sure that you and your fellow traveller(s) are out of the way of traffic.
• Apply the hand/footbrake and put the vehicle in 'park'.
• Loosen the wheel nuts first, but don't remove them! Tip: righty tighty, lefty loosey
• Then place the jack underneath the vehicle, at the jacking point. See the videos below for further instructions.

Changing the tyre of your Spaceships campervan [videos]

To show you how to change a tyre of your Spaceships, we've created several instructional videos. These are especially useful if you have never changed a tyre before.

• Instructional video for the Beta campervan (includes tyre replacement instructions as well)
• How to use your Beta 2S campervan (also covers how to replace a flat tyre)
• Instructional  video for the Dream Sleeper Mini campervan (includes tyre replacement instructions as well)
• Replacing the tyre of our Beta 2S Self-Contained campervans is covered in this instructional video