How hard is it to remove a tire from a rim on your own? How much harder to get that tire on another rim?

Thanks!

 

Alot of hard work, just pay to get it done.

 

I work at GoodYear, and i'd be lost without the tire machine

its $8.95 each tire at my goodyear, keep in mind you have to balance the tire again before you put it on the car to minimize vibrations

 

after buying a set of tires for 500+, i decided to take my old ones off and put new ones on myself to save some money. i saved $45 (they charge $11 a tire to mount it at local firestone) but it is a lot of work. to get the old ones off, i took a 2x8 and made a ramp up on the tire and drove a truck on it to break the bead. from there you use crowbars to take it the rest of the way off. putting them back on is the tricky part, but can easily...er...CAN be done with 2 people and 2 straight crobars. my method was REALLY ghetto, but it worked alright and like i said, i saved $45.
total cost for mounting myself + balancing= $20
cost for someone else to do it- $65

 

and what happens when you put a huge scratch... or a huge nick in the wheel? id rather pay someone else.. they mess up.. they buy it...

-cory-

 

My thoughts exactly. The last thing I need is a scratch in a rim. It sounds like way too much work and risk for a mere $40 savings. There are some things that you just need the right equipment to do properly.

 

I got my old salad shooters taken off my tires and my new rims put on, fully balanced and everything, for $44. Of course, my rims were free from my brother-in-law.

To me, it just wouldn't be worth the time, effort, and very good chance of screwing up. I'd rather pay the $40-$50 to a professional.

 

I have to take an old set of tires of my old wheels for my truck because I'm selling them on ebay and don't want to pay someone to take them off and then pay a disposal fee. I used an electric jig saw and it came of pretty easy on the first one, still have 3 left to do though.

 

is 40 bucks REALLY that much to some of you guys to spend the amount of time dismounting them without the proper machine?
ive been changing tires for 2+ years and its a PITA WITH the machine sometimes

 

Just go pay unless you want to possibly wreck the wheel/tire and have it vibrate like a beast.

 

Changing tires isn't easy. Most people overlook whats actualy done (especialy on alum wheels) when the tire is changed.

tire goes on machine, valve stem comes out.
bead is broken on both sides.
bead pulled over top of rim.
bead pulled over bottom of rim.
Vlave stem cut off and replaced.
rim cleaned with abrasive.
rim lubed with wheel grease.
new tire lubed with assembly oil.
bottom bead put on.
top bead put on.
air put in tire.
large shot of compressed air hit to expand tire to seal bead.
tire filled to spec.
assembly removed and set on balancer.
measuments taken.
old weight removed.
wheels spun.
new weights added.
spun again to check ballance.

Thats for 1 tire. All that X4 if you do them all. This is done with the correct machines and training. I myself have done this well over 5000 times. It's not fun, it's not easy. Unless you can complete all of these steps perfectly then you will have issues. These issues unclude:

Wheel damadge
Broken valve stem
tearing bead of a brand new tire
bead leaking
not being able to seal th bead when you air up teh tire
hurting yourself
not having the wheels ballences ( duh)


Now ask yourself. Is it really worth it saying 40 bucks? no.

 

I have an old set of tires I would just like to get off the rim. Don't care what happens to the tires they are trashed. They are ghetto steal rims nothing fancy. This actually isn't on my camaro it's on a chrysler concord. thanks for the help.

 

I took off my old tires and put on new ones, but I have a friend who works somewhere that has the machine so I just used it after hours. If you has the machine then I say go for it. It isn't that difficult and it didn't seem like you could hurt your wheel (at least not with the machine I was using). If you dont have the machine, definately pay someone because it would be a PITA.