Rotating chrome clad rims?

[JimmyT]

My Silverado has the 20” Plastic Chrome clad rims like come on the Silverado Customs.

 

It’s close to time to rotate the tires and I’m worried the dealer will scratch the chrome clad wheels w/ the impact driver or through just plain carelessness. My manual says that there’s no need to rebalance these tires when rotated (so I’m thankful for that).

 

Does anyone have experience with rotating chrome clad wheels at the dealership or any other shop? Good or bad experiences?

 

I could do it myself but would need to buy a torque wrench etc.

[reardiff]

I know the feeling of letting someone (likely not a mechanic but some young kid technician) you've never met before work on your truck somewhere where you can't see them. For that reason I do most everything myself. (Oil changes, tire rotations, brakes, other basic maintenance).  However for a tire rotation the only thing they should be touching are the lugs, not a huge risk of scratching the wheel if they are not taking the tire off the rim.

 

To do it your self, all you would need is a jack, some jack stands, torque wrench, 21 MM socket and preferably an impact to get the lugs off. Then you will also need a programmer tool to re-learn the tire position for the tire pressure sensors. There's a separate topic someone started recently with information on that.

 

[CamGTP]

22mm

[Hillwood]

20 hours ago, CamGTP said:

22mm

Yup. 22 or 7/8