Calgary Jeep Association
General Forums => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Duncan71 on November 08, 2013, 03:16:03 AM
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Do any "good guy" shops in this city still do a loose mount and balance for a case of beer? Or cheap at least? Best ive seen is $30 a corner, which frankly, is a lot for less than hours total worth of work.
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I think Broken Axle has the equipment
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Yes we sure do. Give us a shout or stop by and we can set you up.
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Do ya do it for beer on the loose M + B, or just $100 bucks?
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Lol, beer doesn't pay rent so cash please ;D
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Aaah, are you guys able to set up my stauns though? That would be a huge help.
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$30 per tire/rim is probably industry standard. Call any tire place and they should be around that.
Or put it this way, is $20 enough for you to do an hour's worth of work that can involve lifting heavy weigh repetitively?
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Mega tire in the ne did a change over and balance for me about a month ago on my wife's Lexus for $73 including tax if I remember right and that's about the cheapest you'll find from what I've found on my vehicles
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Aaah, are you guys able to set up my stauns though? That would be a huge help.
Dave and I have done stauns before... I'm not a fan of them. But we know how to do them...
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$30 per tire/rim is probably industry standard. Call any tire place and they should be around that.
Or put it this way, is $20 enough for you to do an hour's worth of work that can involve lifting heavy weigh repetitively?
Yep. Thats what I did all through highschool. Mounted and balanced tires in a shop for $8 bucks an hour. 2002-2004. Took me around 30 - 40 min a set loose.
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Me too. Put myself thru my AST program at SAIT busting tires at night and on weekends at the Northhill Sears for $8.50/hr. On a small car I could do a set in 30min. They charged $15/tire at the time.
So $30/tire=$120 for a set. Now I can see a dealership charging $120/hr for a tech to work on a vehicle and the tech is getting $30-$40/hr and lots of overhead on shop equipment, but how does a tire shop justify it? The tire tech is getting maybe $15-$20? and they don't have the same overhead. ???
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The cheapest I have seen lately is $20 a tire at Togo tire. It is cheaper for a few friends to get together on buying a used tire machine.
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I have a tire machine but you still have to pay for balancing and tire balancers are expensive. I bought new tires from Kal tire last week, I told them I could mount the tires myself and just needed them balanced. They said mounting was included in the purchase of the tire but balancing was $30/tire. :P
It will be interesting to see next spring when I bring my trailer tires in for replacement and I want the free mounting but don't need them balanced. :D
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Zee tire is $20 each mounted and balanced
http://calgary.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-auto-parts-tires-tires-rims-Zee-Tire-Services-www-zeetire-com-W0QQAdIdZ338971926