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Have you ever struggled when changing a car wheel? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. According to some studies, 75% of millennials don’t know how to change a wheel, reverting to an emergency callout.Never one to run away from a problem, international bearings supplier, Quality Bearings Online decided to challenge the engineering students at University of Leeds. Could they devise a solution to this problem, creating a machine that could change a car wheel, saving lives and unnecessary ca …

According to a survey in The Independent, 75% of millennials don’t know how to change a wheel. Not the world’s biggest problem you might say, but when you consider that many punctures occur by the side of busy roads, only feet away from cars travelling at 30mph plus, and you’re trying to lift your own car weighing in excess of 1000kg… then you get an idea of the potential danger.This got the team at Quality Bearings Online thinking. Could we and the students at the University of Leeds …