Anyone Mount Their Own Tires?

dave07 · February 11, 2018

Does anyone here mount their own tires? I saw some videos on YouTube with people manually mounting tires with pry bars. It really didn’t look that bad, I was thinking of trying it myself. Thoughts?

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Mike GMC · February 11, 2018

It is possible, but you run a risk of damaging the wheel and/or the tire. Then you still have the problem of balancing. Mount and balance isn't very expensive, why would you risk it?

BlkSS · February 11, 2018

^^^^ This

It's not terrible but I only do it on steel wheels on the farm as it doesn't matter how they look and they don't need balanced either.

txab · February 11, 2018

Not worth imo. But whatever floats your boat

MixerDriver · February 11, 2018

I mount my own tires...on my zero turn and tractor. Wouldn't do it on my truck. One of those things I'd rather pay someone to do.

Hoginedgewood · February 11, 2018

I have the Harbor Freight tire changer, only because the motorcycle tire attachment hooks to it.

I changed 4 tires on my Colorado, 15”, not a big job at all, with the right tools.

but as others said I still had to pay to have them balanced.

lordathey · February 12, 2018

I have an old tire changer and I wouldn't do it on my truck. I only use it my old beater cars or farm equipment.

dave07 · February 12, 2018

I think I’m not going to attempt due to the reasons that were listed above. Some places around here charge $25+ to mount and balance tires! This gets expensive when me and my wife both have sets of winter and summer tires for our cars. Luckily there is a Costco near by that does $10 a tire, appointments are usually 2 weeks out though.

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tnchevy · February 13, 2018

Have you ever thought about buying an extra set of rims to keep your winter tires on? It will be an upfront cost but that will keep you from having to unmount and remount tires on two vehicles twice a year. I do change my own tires on everything I own unless I can get a good deal on a set of tires that include balancing which is easier to do these days compared to years ago. I also own the cheap harbor freight tire changer and I used to use an old school balancer that had the bubble in the middle (still have it) but I now use beads in my motorcycle tires to balance them out and may try them on my truck tires when the time comes to change them.

Ozer · February 13, 2018

I just went to Dunn Tire, $22 a tire mounted, balanced, installed, and torqued with a wrench not an impact, filled with nitrogen as well aaaand, free lifetime tire rotations for the life of the tires AAANNNDDD free puncture repairs. I mean, how you going wrong with that deal? Well worth the $80 something i paid.

I didnt buy my tires from there either, as long as they are brand new tires they will do this deal.

wforrest08 · February 13, 2018

3 hours ago, Ozer said:

I didnt buy my tires from there either, as long as they are brand new tires they will do this deal.

Guess you found your tire shop for life!

Next time your there you want to see if they’d be interested in opening up a shop in the middle of Iowa somewhere?

I mean I’d drive out there to get my rotates but by the time I’d get home it would be time to do it again...

Nick The Great · February 13, 2018

We had a tire machine on the farm. It kinda sucks, but not terrible. I can't imagine doing it with just prybars. Certainly not on the nicer wheels we all have.

Our machine won't work on these gangsters wheels that these trucks come with now, so I just pay someone to do it.