after MUCH sweating and swearing VWSP97 is now sat resplendent on it’s winter tyres!….

… got the tyres swapped onto smlla 5 lug hubs yesterday and started to fit up the back ones…
doh…

lowered slambasaurus…

wont’ fit in the arches..

bus falls off the jackl and axle stands…

need to jack the bus up to get the jack out that’s stuck under it to get the jack to jack it up to get the jack out….

1920’s bottl;e jack to the rescue, cranked up with an old pair of pliers…

brainwave! let the air out the snow tyres..

doh! the sidewall is so hard they’re the same shape uninflated!

brainwave! bottlejakc to the rescue, wedge it in against the bringplate and crank the suspension down !!!!
wheel just fits, bolt it up…

doh! how to get the bottle jack out ?

EVENTUALLY, got the back wheels done,

front wheels,

DOH! lost the key for the locking wheel nuts,

Brainwave! drift on a 14mm socket with a BIG hammer,

eventually get the fronts done!

snowtyres all the way round…

man it looks UGLY