Benefits of a Tire ChangerBenefits of a Tire Changer

Tire changing can be costly and time-consuming without the right equipment. Adding a tire changer to your garage offers numerous benefits to help increase your business’s productivity and profitability.

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What Is a Tire Changing Machine?

A tire changer makes quick work of mounting and dismounting a tire from the wheel rim. Various components contribute to the mounting and dismounting process, including:

• Rim clamps and tabletop: Mechanics place the tire on the tabletop, which rotates the tire for mounting and dismounting, while the adjustable rim clamps hold the rim firmly in place.
• Foot pedals: Tire machines have different pedals. A clamp control pedal that opens and closes rim clamps, a tabletop pedal that rotates the table, as well as a pedal that operates the side bead breaker.
• Air pressure system: When mounting the tire to the rim, mechanics use the air pressure system to inflate the tire, which includes a hose, inflation gauge, inflation pedal and pressure bleed valve.
• Mount and demount mechanism: This portion of the tire changer includes a bill-shaped duck head that separates the tire from the rim, moved by a swing arm and set by a vertical slide that maintains stability around the rim.
• Bead breaker: The bead breaker system includes a curved metal blade controlled by an arm overhead that loosens the tire bead, separating the tire from the rim.

Tire Changing Machine Benefits

Tire changing can be tricky by hand, requiring experience, hand tools, physical strength and attention to detail to ensure the tire and rim remain undamaged. Bringing a tire changer into the process offers several benefits for your service center.

Saves You Time

Changing tires may be one of the most common responsibilities at any service center or garage. Doing this task by hand can be incredibly time-consuming, keeping your customer waiting and your staff busy with one customer for longer. With a tire changer, your team can remove and replace tires on rims in a fraction of the time, allowing your team to serve more customers for maximum productivity.

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Increases Your Garage’s Efficiency

A tire-changing machine requires less physical exertion than removing and replacing tires by hand. Incorporating a tire changer into your shop’s workflow ensures your team can tackle more tasks in the same amount of time. The result is greater efficiency, helping your staff complete jobs faster and on time.

Lowers Costs

Investing in tire changing equipment saves time and allows your team to complete more tasks in a day — reducing your labor costs per job. Another saving is the expense of replacing or repairing damaged rims, which is a risk when changing tires by hand. You’ll also save on costs related to workplace accidents, since using a tire changing machine is much safer.

Offers an Excellent ROI

Tire changers are a smart investment when you consider that tire changing is a core part of your business and daily responsibilities. While there is an initial cost required to buy a tire changer, your team will be able to handle much more work with the equipment. As a result, your daily turnover will likely increase, making the tire changer an excellent investment.

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I should clarify I'm not looking to do super low profile, just tires like 225/45/17. I don't expect to have 40 series or less in the foreseeable future. (I'm not sure what the actual definition of "low profile" actually is)

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The aspect ratio is less important than the actual sidewall height when it comes to ease of tire mounting. Your 225/45-17s only have a 4" sidewall. One of my cars uses 195/60-15s, which have a 4.6" sidewall, and those can be tough to mount. I finally got some bead holders, which keep the bead down in the low part of the outer rim while you work your way around the tire. These are the ones I got, but there are many different styles.

FWIW, sometimes breaking the bead is the most problematic. Some of today's wide alloy wheels have a wide inner shoulder which is a tight fit against the tire ID. I've given up on doing wide alloys with low profile tires. Just not worth the grunting.

Bottom line, even though the local tire shop charges extra for anything over 16", I pay them to mount and balance; it's not likely the homehobbyhack is going to have a spin balancer and that's an absolute must with large diameter tires.

A plus having a relationship is they also offer free flat repairs and they even replaced bad valve stems a couple of times.

jack vines Joe: thanks for pointing those out. I've seen them at Greg Smith, I'll be sure to grab a couple.

Jack: thanks for the comments. Do you think even that heavy duty changer from Greg Smith, linked to above, would have a hard time breaking the bead? It's funny, my local tire shops are what's driving me to do this. 6 out of the last 7 sets of tires I've had put on were done wrong for one reason or another. At 4 different shops... I've wasted so much valuable time going back due to mistakes... I give up, I'm going to get a spin balancer and do it all myself.

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The aspect ratio is less important than the actual sidewall height when it comes to ease of tire mounting. Your 225/45-17s only have a 4" sidewall. One of my cars uses 195/60-15s, which have a 4.6" sidewall, and those can be tough to mount.

WRONG ! Aspect ratio is just another way of stating side wall height !!

Take the width (225) and multiple by thee aspect ratio which is a percentage (40% or 0.40) 225*0.4=90 which is in millimeters. Convert to inches is 3.5" !!

That is "extreme" !

I finally got some bead holders, which keep the bead down in the low part of the outer rim while you work your way around the tire. These are the ones I got, but there are many different styles.

At least 2 or 3 of those, a GOOD mount/demount tool (like NoMar) and plenty of lube APPLIED IN THE PROPER LOCATION and it CAN be done. Use rim protectors on alloy rims work CAREFULLY from the back with a protector on the machine so the face of the rim does NOT touch the metal base.

Demounting is all about keeping the bead opposite th area you are working on down in the "drop center".

Mounting low profile tires is usually much easier. Work on grass or a piece of carpet withe the rim face down. Lube the appropriate areas. place the outer face of the tire partial on the rim (which is face down) and use you body to pop it on making certain the area opposite where you are working is well in the drop center. Bead holders, spoon and rim protector are necessary for the second bead.

With the proper technique, patients, and tools IT CAN BE DONE !