Fitting Tyres!!??

pos · Sep 4, 2008

Hello,

Following on from my wheel related thread I've gone and bought four used 235x85xr16 Tyres for my 90. Local stealer (not landy garage) has asked for £45 to fit and balance them, which I'm refusing to pay for 15 minutes work done by a machine. How do I change the tyres myself?

1) Totally deflate the tyre
2) Break the bead with a crowbar
3) Prise the tyre off the rim with a crow bar

That's all there is too it right? Then to refit, it will just need a really good push?

Cheers
-Pos

Grippa · Sep 4, 2008

It's a fair price for well fitted, balanced tyres, you fekin tight wad. Hope you know wot you're doing.

stig · Sep 4, 2008

you won't break the bead seal with crowbar, best to have a long and wide stout piece of wood,place this on the sidewall of the tyre at 90degrees to the centre and then drive your landy up the wood (or jack the landy up and then drop down onto the wood) repeat for both sides. you will need a good tyre inflator to reseal the tyres back on the rims as they normaly need over 70psi to get then to seal

Grippa · Sep 4, 2008

stig said:
you will need a good tyre inflator to reseal the tyres back on the rims as they normaly need over 70psi to get then to seal

Yeah, delivered fekin quickly.

Adz · Sep 4, 2008

lol...It cost me £50 and that ain't bad as it took the guys at ATS nearly 2 hours to fit and balance them properly... seems my bargain e-bay Disco steelies weren't as 'straight' as they could have been

Pay 'em pos... how're you going to balance them up?

pos · Sep 4, 2008

ballcocks

Trewey · Sep 4, 2008

try to find a small garidge wiv a tyre machine.
my son's garidge fits and balances fer a fiver a wheel, so long as you leave them there so that they can do it as-and-when.

wiltshire landyman · Sep 4, 2008

most garages ive ever use seemed to base it on £5 per tyre off and £5 per tyre back on balanced

Adz · Sep 4, 2008

pos said:
ballcocks

There you go then pos... all yer need to do is drive ter Cornwall and drop yer wheels off at Trewey's son's garridge book into a B&B for an unspecified length of stay and then drive home again a further £20 lighter.

How much is the diseasal price near you at the mo?

pos · Sep 4, 2008

Adz said:
There you go then pos... all yer need to do is drive ter Cornwall and drop yer wheels off at Trewey's son's garridge book into a B&B for an unspecified length of stay and then drive home again a further £20 lighter.

How much is the diseasal price near you at the mo?

Lol, diesel is between 120.9 (morrisons) and 122.9 at shell and esso. I take it that you're not about?

-Pos

david451 · Sep 5, 2008

pos said:
Lol, diesel is between 120.9 (morrisons) and 122.9 at shell and esso. I take it that you're not about?

-Pos

Yep pay the money pos, shud get them done for 10 quid a wheel, it's a coont to get em orf without proper tyre levers, and knowing what you are doing.

That old engine still running

pos · Sep 5, 2008

I'm going to pay to get them swapped tomorrow all being well. Yep, still running strong! Took it to guernsey and back two weeks ago, good run, no problems =)

discomania · Sep 5, 2008

We want picshurz!

pos · Sep 5, 2008

The garage my local landy place uses to do MOT's are going to swap them for £30 this afternoon, providing that I take my old tyres away (which I want to keep anyway). I'll put pictures up when they're on and I'm home.

-Pos

david451 · Sep 6, 2008

pos said:
The garage my local landy place uses to do MOT's are going to swap them for £30 this afternoon, providing that I take my old tyres away (which I want to keep anyway). I'll put pictures up when they're on and I'm home.

-Pos

Dunt get married pos, me wife has bought me a fokin scooter to cut down on the running costs. Woz out in it today and I thought I woz gona get killed, or died wif hyporthermia. The rain came on and I cudnt see fokal, she bought me a vespa helmet wiff goggles and expects me to fokin wear them, fokin chrome aswel.

I fink she's gone too far and the goggle thing worries me, the last time I saw somfink like this the person was nakid.

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