TIRE MACHINE

Anyone have axcess to a tire machine 24/7?

Seconded. That and an alignment machine would be lovely.

I can make anything happen if you have a pry bar and a ski mask. lol

Go get me on. I'll give you some cash Dr.Auto, lol. I'd love to have a tire machine in my garage.

WEll as luck would have it I have a pry bar.....AND A SKI MASK....when did we want to go do naughty things again?

Guess not bad time to have tires put on tire shops are backed up

Perhaps we should all just chip in on a tire machine. And an alignment machine. Who here wouldn't love to have free access to an alignment machine?

Black out.Friday I know where there is a couple we need a gateway driver... where can we find a wheelman???

I'll try to be the get a way driver


as far as chipping in on one?..... i doubt we could or would want to try to chip in on equipment that would cast in the neighborhood of $100k when where would we put it? and I'm sure we would all take care of it in varying methods. lol

I've seen them for under $2k. Might be able to find one used for less.

You've seen an alignment rack with heads and a control unit for less than $2k?

must have been the first one created and uses string. lol

Really..... look up what an alignment rack costs.


Tire machine under $2k .... ya I can see that.... but you need to balance the tires too. so that means you need a tires mcahine.... and a balancer.
And I don't know about you..... but I would want something decent that I could EASILY find parts for WHEN it breaks.

I'm looking at the Napa quarterly sales flyer right now.

Coats Tire machine $5200-7800

balancer $2800-15,000

alighnment rack (as in a WHOLE setup) not just the rack but the system $40,000-80,000

I was thinking of a tire machine. It's a shame nobody here works at a tire shop.

we must start assimilating our men into specific jobs we'll get cheap services in no time

I find it hard t o believe that nobody in MAEC works in a tire store, as there are like a dozen stores around town. Maybe we could talk one of the cool places like Lisac's into giving MAEC members a discount.

There is someone here that works at a tire shop, but I don't want to divulge who for fear he gets swamped with requests. He'll chime in if he decides to.

Ya ya I know three people on here that work at a tire shop but most likely can't just go and use the shop

I can do tires. 30$ to mount and balance, and you need to take off the tires from you car and bring them to me.


sorry, but I can no longer have " side work" cars at my shop.

you crack me up i was just there last week and used the tire machine for free.......thanks to rj

Cyfun wrote:

I find it hard t o believe that nobody in MAEC works in a tire store, as there are like a dozen stores around town. Maybe we could talk one of the cool places like Lisac's into giving MAEC members a discount.

hahah eric might have messed that one up for us lol

92civic wrote:

you crack me up i was just there last week and used the tire machine for free.......thanks to rj

RJ is getting canned at the end of the month

pay up sucker !!!

he is moving to service

Cyfun wrote:

I was thinking of a tire machine. It's a shame nobody here works at a tire shop.

I find that hard to believe that no one on the forum works at a tire place. That is crazy.

just no one want to be overloaded....tire Rama stayleys and a to z all three places have a employee that is on here daily

We need someone taking classes at the College of Technology, cause anyone there can use the tire mounter, balancer, and alignment rack. I took a suspensions class there years ago, and had a blast fucking around with my caster and camber.

It's not quite that open. Students in the automotive program can use the machines if they work it out with an instructor or are doing work for one of the classes. We do not need to start the rumor that it is open for all to use. At the moment the balancer is not functional due to student abuse.

As far as the alignment rack, it is in use for classes most of the semester. Right now there are more students left with classwork to finish than there are days left in the semester.

Next semester there is a class in which students do work for customers. The school only charges $20 to open a work order and parts. If someone calls out to set it up, there is the possiblity of a relatively cheap alignment.

so i got a tire machine with reasonable hrs to do tires....just need to set up a time and we can do them....preferable have the wheels off the car before so it will be faster.....but no tire to big or to small.....atv motorcycle no biggie not a problem to stretch either nice machine nothing to touch the wheels lip so no scratches tire balancer too let me know

Woot! You want beer or oral or anything for your trouble?

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