[Closed] Anyone tried changing their own car tyres?

I really really want to see video of a STW'er trying to seat a tubeless mountain bike tire with fire like those guys from South America!

Somebody, please try it! 😀

I've long wished for a compressor for a variety of reasons, so this coul dbe a good excuse.

Weird - I thought this entire thread existed because you didn't have the money to pay someone else to do it. Yet now you're happy to spend loads on an expensive tool that you won't need if you just paid someone at a garage a few quid to do it for you. Strange logic.

FFS Just buy some spare rims, get tyres fitted - and its not like Molgrips is poor, based upon his other posts

And next time, buy them as a job-lot.

One thing made me chuckle though, a [i]change your own car tyres[/i] post on a forum that pretty much ever week has a [i] I can't get a tyre on a Crest rim[/i] thread.

The indie garage near me just fitted my winter tyres and stored my summers for free.

Picked up my car from the house and dropped it back off again that afternoon too.

🙂

Owt over a tenner to swap tyres is just bending you over.

I had 2 sloweys fixed earlier this year, the price A WHOLE £8 EACH.

Houns - Member
Lols @ this thread

Most stwers can't fit a UST tyre properly on their bikes yet happy to change their own car tyres

No, just the OP.

For the last few years we’ve been running a set of winter tyres (Goodyear UltraGrip) all year. We do go over the border into Germany quite often so need them in the winter anyway but my thinking is, I’d rather have better grip in dodgy winter conditions than slightly worst grip in ideal summer conditions, they are better in the wet than summer tires which it is quite often here, they are on a C-Max so not exactly a performance car where the difference matters and the Dutch and Belgian ‘B’ roads are often un-surfaced sandy lanes so something with a more aggressive tread helps.

The first winter we fitted them the summer tyres were getting worn anyway so we just put them on the alloys, after the winter I looked into getting some more rims for a swap but it doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you can get really cheap rims. It makes no sense whatsoever to keep swapping the tires onto one set of rims, even if it costs a tenner per corner that’s 15% of the cost of a new tyre each time you change, and I don’t think that the winters wear 15% quicker than summers.