🔖 Deals Tire Mounting and balancing

[chris101]

Depending on what you have (We can't handle everything so we ask first)

..we have our own tire mounting and balancing machine in our garage and offer limited mounting and balancing (I say limited because we are not a shop, can't handle runflats, SUV/Truck wheels/tires, anything with TPMS and some specific size/tire/wheel combos)

Anyway, if we can handle it, our policy is as follows:

cash deal only
we do not touch anyones car so you have to provide us loose tires/wheels
we do not take your old tires *you have to throw away on your own


Remember we are not a shop so if you are concerned about insurance, etc. we are not who you want to talk to.

Anyway, our cost breakdown is as follows for simple jobs:

$5 to dismount a tire from a wheel
$5 to mount a tire to a wheel
$5 to balance a tire to a wheel (price goes up if excessive weights used as weights are NOT cheap)

Valve stems are $1.25 each (standard rubber valve stem)

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[transmaxed]

lol... i just dropped off my car to get tires mounted last night... great timing.

I dont suppose ud be able to mount 315/35/17 tires anyway? Not that it matters but just curious

 

[chris101]

as long as it isn't on something silly like a 6" or 7" wide rim, 315s on 17s are not a problem (we've done 275 40 17s on 9" wide for our mustang easily enough) ..and just did 245 35 18s last night on 9" rims

..now if you had 22", I'd say NO.

 

[transmaxed]

This would have been for a 17x11 rim.

 

[chris101]

This would have been for a 17x11 rim.

haven't done that wide yet but I don't see why we couldn't.. wider is easier (not more difficult) for the most part...



The type of thing we wont' touch is something like a 225 on a 6" wide rim (stuffing wider tires on skinny rims not so easy to do unless you have $30k hunter equipment with plenty of aid arms and we only have 1 extra aid arm on our setup)

We also won't touch the 'stretched' look (if that is even still the 'in scene' I'm not sure).. so no we won't mount a 205 on an 8" or wider rim for that 'stretch' fitment either.

..and then things like runflat tires (or other ultra stiff sidewall tires) is something that requires a specialized run-flat mount machine (big money) that we don't have.

 

[transmaxed]

My buddy may need your services to dismount old tires and mount new tires on 2 rims... I will let him know and get back to you. (275/40/17 tire on 9.5" wide rims) He lives in Mt. Prospect also.

 

[chris101]

My buddy may need your services to dismount old tires and mount new tires on 2 rims... I will let him know and get back to you. (275/40/17 tire on 9.5" wide rims) He lives in Mt. Prospect also.

okay.. just LMK.. that shouldn't be a problem..

we are around this evening if its something he wanted/needed asap...

 

[chris101]

As an FYI to those interested, we now do the mounting/balancing in evening hours between 6pm and 8pm and on weekends that we are not at a track (PM me to schedule and we can go from there)

 

[syP]

so pretty much $60 for new tires to be put on...


Assuming your balancer is calibrated, thats a really good deal. Firestone and equivalent charge nearly $100

 

[syP]

*didnt mean to hit reply*

 

[chris101]

yup, we use our machines often for track use (so we obviously can't have out-of-balance wheels when hitting 130+ mph at road america for example!) so all good here!

Every so often we encounter a wheel that we have a difficult time balancing but so far it has only happened on a stock Taurus wheel (family owned car so we know to turn down stock taurus aluminum rims now) but every thing else (especially aftermarket wheels) balance out great!