Wheel Works here in Vallejo has been outstanding! to me. They did charge
about $60 for mount and balance...They change my wheels/tires for next to
nothing and dispose of trashed tires for free...But they know me by
now...(as the crazy racing chick, I'm sure ;). I can't say enough good
things about them!
Well, I will not be axing this weekend. The car that I would have been
driving broke. I could go to WW and get the race tires put back on my
car...But life is pretty crazy right now...My house is now for sale, but I
am still working on it...Can you say "stress"? I thought you could...;-)
Debbie, hoping for a 2 or 3 car garage in Sacto...
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Creasy" <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
To: "Mark J. Andy" <marka@telerama.com>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: Tire mounting costs (was: Poor, poor tires..)
> went to big-o today with loose wheels- $10 per and i dont get them
balanced.
> (plus $2.50 disposal)
>
> they had trouble mounting the r-tires though, and i may have to tip/bride
> them next time to get them to do it. ive been turned away at other places
> when they see the race tires.
>
> what a shame to dump them, 160 runs on the fronts and still some tread on
my
> kumhos! i must not have any traction up there.
>
> -james
> OSP #74
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark J. Andy <marka@telerama.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 10:21 PM
> Subject: Tire mounting costs (was: Poor, poor tires..)
>
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Darren Madams wrote:
> > > 3. If you do have tires that can be flipped on the rims (not just
> > > rotated front to rear), you can get quite a bit of extra life out of
> > > them... but the cost of unmount/mount adds up. And you'll be left
> > > with a high point of tread in the middle.
> >
> > That reminds me...
> >
> > What's a normal cost to mount and balance tires out here? Motorsport
> > Techniques charged me $80 to mount and balance four tires (gave 'em the
> > car & tires). That certainly seemed pretty high to me, but I've got a
> > tire machine back home and haven't paid to have tires mounted in recent
> > memory.
> >
> > Is that normal? I mean, it only takes an hour for a schmuck like me to
do
> > a complete mount & balance, including torqueing the wheels, setting air
> > pressure, etc! The guys that really know how to run the tire machines
are
> > quite a bit quicker...
> >
> > Mark
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