after seeing those muppets change mine last week, i been thinking that it cant be that hard to do without the proper machinery. firstly youll have to 'break the bead' (is that what its called?) and do that all the way round, both sides. push the wheel half way out the tyre then use a lever to do the rest. same process in reverse to refit? or is it just not possible lol
changing tyres on steel wheels is easy with a couple of tyre levers and a soft hammer. alloys are harder as easily damaged. they need to come of / go on the side with the least dish. breaking the bead can be done with levers or even laying the tyre down and running over it sometimes works. a lubricant can also help. if the tyre is no good is even better as its easy to damage the lip where it seals. i have done many this way.
i'd like to see you balance one correctly and change the valves pay the "muppits" 8 a corner and you're sorted. At least they have an idea of what they're doing
with balancing, they can only really damage the wheel if they drop it i expect! i hate taking my car places to have work done, i never end up happy with the work, and last week was so bad i could have puked
I went to get my mate to change mine at a beemer dealership, now considering neither of us had attempted it before it went quite well. We managed to split 2 tyres and break the plastic bit on the machine too
nice one aphex. i agree matt 82 no way im paying someone to do something i can do myself but saying that if id just purchased a set of 18,s and some ultra low profiles id pay to get them fitted .
good score is that the dealer on the A127? im heading back ina couple weeks, i cant wait to be back in home territory! i wont be attempting it on my new paradas, i know that much
changing tyres by yourself can be done but for the effort and the tools you'd have to buy, tyre levers and the like then just find somewhere that is trusted by others and get yours sorted, balancing is near impossible without a machine to let the wheel free wheel, so theres more money to do that
Lmao yeah that's the one, you might even spy his white e30 shape bimmer out the front of Yellow Self Storage (no parking nearer). The bloke he was apprenticising for (made up a word) helped me out no end with my dubs lol. Sorry to hi-jack a bit here but have you had any dealing with P. Breading? VW and Audi specialist down aviation way near southend airport?
o yea changing tires is easy, you see it done once you'll be able to mimic no prob, its gotta be one of the easiest things u learn in automotives just the two things u have to worry about is safety and correct size, but doing a low profile tire suks, and doing a lambos rear is ridiculas.
I recall a post by someone who had a piece of wood screwed to a garage wall, about a foot and a half off the ground (ish) and then used a bottle jack to break the bead. I had never figured this bit out, but used to get garages to break the bead, and would then go home, saw the bead, take the knackered tyres off, and fit a new tyre. Mind you, they were 13s, they were alloys and I was most proud and I was under 20 at the time. But given some of the costs to fit tyres these days (10 a corner seems common, where you're allowed to take in your own tyres) I am itching to find a way round this racket. Then nip them down to the bay for balancing.
Luckily I can use works tyre machine if I need it, going rate round here is 5 a corner which is well worth it if you haven`t got access to a proper machine. Couldn`t imagine doing it with levers on 17" or 18" radials..
I thought you needed to use whale fat to seal the new tyre to the rim. Where would you get that from?
It depends a lot on the tyre construction aswell, you will strugle like b*ggery to get something like an R888 Toyo on the rim without the right kit. I know what you mean about the tyre fitters though they are complete spanners (generally). First place I went to the monkey jacked the car under the wrong bit of the sill and bent it all, then the second place the guy took 30 minutes to remove one of the wheel nuts then noticed that it was a metal cap on a locking wheel nut....third place I went to almost insisted on a free geometry check so I agreed. When he measured it he said it needed adjustment because it was not to the recomended manufacturer setting so I asked him what the measurement was and it did turn out to be within tolerance....he then re-measured it and dicreetly moved one of the bits of kit so it wasn't resting against the rim so it took it outside tolerance....at which point I told him what I thought of him and left.
I suppose I am quite lucky. One of my mates is a tyre fitter. means I get cheap tyres. For example I got 2 195/65 R15 Micheline tyres for my parents car fitted, and the tracking done for 110 all in
