This hole "tire balancing" routine is another scam! Most tires today are
made to a higher standard than "in the old days". Buy 'em on the web, mount
'em yourself and to hell with balancing. I put new rubber on my "75 Caddie"
every few years and it runs like top. Maybe a little wobble at certain
speeds, so I avoid those speeds, but faster or slower is OK. Save your
money.

"Harry K" wrote in message
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"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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mooseshoes wrote:

All:

My car needs 4 new tires and I know I can save a bunch of dough if I
buy
new tires online and replace them myself, however, I've never done
this
before and I'm curious if others have and if so, if they can either:

a) recommend against doing it myself; or
b) tell me that it is a good idea and suggest where I might learn more
on
how to do it.

I've done some preliminary research on the subject and I haven't found
the
definitive set of instructions yet.

Thanks for your advice in advance.

Steve

They make non powered tools for that, you just need to use a lot more
muscle and lots of slippery gooh so that you don't damage the tires
when you mount them. Don't know if you can save money or not by the
time you buy the tools and then find out that your vehicle needs
dynamically balanced tires. If you have a good nationwide or area
wide outfit like Les Schwab in the northwest, you get free flat
repair, free rebalancing, free rotation, minor cost for road hazard
insurance, and no effort.

Yep. I use Schwabbies and have since they opened a local shop. For
the services you get I will pay the little extra over on-line and
avoid all the hassles. They have even fixed flats for me on tires I
never bought from them. Just changed PU winter tires last year as
they were -way- down. They checked the puter and gave a rebate for
warranty on them.

Harry K