Tried swapping tires on the car this weekend, from winter to summer tires. Got the rear wheels done, but just could not get the bolts loose on the front ones, even though I have a long lug wrench for plenty of leverage, on which I hung with my entire body weight.

Admitted defeat, accepted the idea of paying for a tire swap, and took the car to the nearest, cheapest tire swap place. They gave it a try, then another one, and then gave up as well. I felt rather less ashamed of my puny attempts after that.

Perhaps I could have found some clever trick on the internet but I really didn’t want to spend more time on this, so I booked a time at an actual car repair workshop. They finally got the front tires swapped, for a cool 1000 SEK. Ouch.