PNW Chit Chat thread

[5Toes]

Anybody got the hookup on a good place for tire swapping? My Style 66s are getting new rubber this weekend and Discount Tire wants $50 to mount and balance two tires...

[BraveUlysses]

Karl Coleman can hook you up on cheap M&B but the gas to get there might be prohibitive for you.

http://www.tightntidyracing.com/

[2mAn]

toes, thats not too bad, its usually around $20/ wheel, and at least with them doing it you can take it back to them if something happens

[e30austin]

I get mine for $12.50 here in PDX.

[5Toes]

Tacoma area shops are fine by me

[Mlarsen]

If you're too cheap to go to a good reputable shop, then go to some shit hole used tire place they'll do it for next to nothing

[e30austin]

Word.

[bmwm42]

Didn't know swapping rubber was rocket science

[BraveUlysses]

Didn't know swapping rubber was rocket science

The mount and balance machines aren't cheap to own or maintain, nor do you want untrained idiots doing this kind of work.

[Habla]

Do you have a Costco card?

[BraveUlysses]

Costco will not mount tires that you did not buy from them.

[Quadrajet]

When you start getting into lower profile tires you want to have someone who knows what they're doing. The chances of marring a wheel or gouging the sidewall or taking chunks out of the bead are not good. Depending on the equipment used.

[10Toes]

The mount and balance machines aren't cheap to own or maintain, nor do you want untrained idiots doing this kind of work.

I find them to be pretty cheap (~$10k for a decent machine and balancer)

At only a set of 4 tires a day and the machine pays for itself in 4 months.

[cbouchez]

Dependable wheel will do it for $25.00 a wheel

[BraveUlysses]

I find them to be pretty cheap (~$10k for a decent machine and balancer)

Fair enough, but I still wouldn't trust those used tire shops to spend the necessary money and time to have equipment and labor equivalent to a real tire shop.