Manually Changing Tires?

Check if your local Walmart with tire center will replace them and ask how much.

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There's always the possibility of scratching the rims. And you need a big enough air compressor to get them onto the seats on the rim or else monkey with ropes or straps to try to get them in place. And then you need to balance them. I'm big on DIY, but replacing tires is a big enough PITA that I let the pros use the machines for car & truck tires. Money well spent IMHO.

 

If you search, you can find a manual automotive tire changer for around $200. Maybe less
if you REALLY search.

 

I helped my son-in-law manually remove some tires from a set of wheels he wanted from a u-pull-it yard. What a PITA! I would let a tire shop do it, considering how infrequently it is done.

 

He should have sprayed the inside part of tire. Spraying the outside didn't help.
Fill the tire first before puting in the valve core, it will fill faster.
And I guess he doesn't know how to use that tire machine....

Don't forget you'll have to have the tire balanced...

 

If you do decide to do it yourself:
https://www.napaonline.com/en/p/BK_7651338

 

Considering the guys selling the tires have all the equipment, I'd let the pros do it. I am partial to just bringing in loose rims though, mounting them myself at my leisure. One downside to that: they can't verify your odo, makes it impossible to take advantage of tread-life warranties.

 

It's a pain in the butt that's why I got the machine from eBay

 

This was my project during Pandemic lockdown...
Bought a Prius with blown head gasket and needs new set of tires but no tire shop nearby was open... So, I come up with this and a bubble balancer to get me by... Wasn't cheap, cheap.. but don't have much room in the garage and this doesn't take much room..
I own 5 vehicles plus occasional fix uppers so 3 sets of tires so far...
Now looking for a small footprint tire balancer because bubble balancer is kind of pain and time consuming..

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i can't even change a bicycle tire

 

A set of tire spoons and some lube and a beginner has a fair shot at dismounting and remounting tires on steel rims without damage.

If they are aluminum rims that changes things a little- it's easier to scratch those rims.

I salute the blacksmith who chops the firewood for his own forge and all, but full manual tire remount is a brutal amount of hard labor to do.

 

I mounted my OEM tires onto new aluminum wheels after having winter tires mounted on the OEM aluminum wheels.

It was a timing issue and I needed a challenge.

Secret is to use tire bead lube and rim edge protectors. A large pry bar is also required.

Take it slow and be cautious not to ding the wheel with the pry bar.


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The hard work is breaking the bead and removing the old tires. Mounting tires is pretty easy. In fact, you can almost certainly mount 15" tires without any tools. 17" tires, with their shorter/stiffer sidewalls, take a bit more force. You'll then want a good air compressor to be able to seat the new tires, again probably easier with 15"s than 17s.

The truly expensive equipment are the tire balancers. You might get away without balancing new high quality tires, but I wouldn't count on it.

 

I won’t do anything larger than 15” on a manual changer but have been forced to use it on my small nonstandard stuff (the tire places won’t even touch the 125/80r13’s on my Comutacar

 

I've found most low budget tire and alignment shops do mount and balance for $20 cash if you bring new tire and wheel with old tire on it and not the whole car. This also includes tire disposal. I use the spare tire to get around as this work is done one at a time. It works well for me.

 

I'd put tire mounting and dentistry in the same category: sorry, but I'm not that self-reliant.

 

I actually do all my own dentistry, but wouldn't risk doing my own tire mounting...

 

great deal!
i think i paid almost $700. including install for my michelins a few years ago. got them from tire rack and local mech installed them.