Tire Mounting Fees

[JTP]

The shop I use matched Tire Rack's price and charged $60 to mount and road force balance the set. 18" wheels.

[Gforrest2]

Up here, $20 - $25 is the going rate to dismount, mount, and balance a low profile tire. I had Discount Tire do mine this summer and I think I paid $20.

[schnellman]

Four tires dismounted, four new tires mounted and balanced with new stems. Total of $95.85 in the Dayton, OH area.

[coreseller]

Being an elcheapo at heart I've gone that route a few times in the past on tire mounting / balancing, more often than not I ended up paying for it through balance issues / shimmies or buggared up wheels courtesy of $7/hr. Melvin. Now I suck it up and pay full rate at reputable shops, $20 to $25 per is the going rate for quality work around me.

[Idaho Red Rocket 3]

Sounds like Melvin is the one getting ripped-off. Isn't minimum wage $7.25 ?

[fatmike]

Perfect -- I used Euro Tire recently on Route 46 (Fairfield)? THey charged something like $25 per tire (I don't really remember), but I ended up have some wheels straightened and they didn't charge me to dis-mount and re-mount since I bought the tires from them.

The value of a shop that can get the wobble out -- priceless...

[yelojkt]

You got to pay to play. We do not drive ordinary average cars. Therefor it is going to cost us more for labor. Instead of paying Melvin (who drives a beat-up POS saturn) to throw some rubber on some hubcap covered steelies or dime-a-dozen curbrashed factory alloys we are paying Aaron who works at the bimmer lot (drives a lowered GTI with 2 grand or more worth of wheels and tires) to take his time and mount and balance our wheels with like he would his own.

I hate it just as much as you but it's that of back to the 98 ford taraus DD.