Is it cheaper to change tyres yourself?

[le bon paysan]

J’ai un crevee. Is this the right translation. I have had good service from the French tyre repairers. Stuck on a ‘route national’ with two punctures in a LR with five children on board.
Nothing was too difficult for them.
Sounds like you’ve not a lot of neighbourly support.

Try it in a tractor.

 

[quavers]

got a couple of new tyres fitted a couple of months back, 28" fronts cost me £60 more to have the fitter to come to farm rather than order online and fit them my self

 

[neilo]

Surely best to give your local tyrefitters a chance to quote on anything new? Mine have always been cheaper than any online quotes I’ve found, then fitted free into the bargain.

I guess it depends on your local fitters though, and how much competition they have locally.

 

[Simon Chiles]

I’ve got a tractor and telehandler wanting tyres soon and was wondering if it’s much cheaper for me to buy tyres online (such as big tyres.co.uk) or is it not worth it and let local tyre firm do them?

As almost everyone on here states it’s not normally much more expensive to have them fitted. Having said that we always fit them ourselves, I think practice makes us efficient at the job so that if we need to repair/change a tyre in an emergency we’re well equipped to do it. I reckon we could change or repair a tubeless tractor tyre in 20-30 minutes. I doubt anyone could get to me that quick even if they were sitting by the phone waiting for someone to call. I keep tractor tyres that have little tread left but are otherwise serviceable and have a good range of other new tyres in stock for such occasions. I don’t like downtime when we’re hay making or harvesting and even less so if we’re doing both operations at the same time.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Exactly the same situation as us. I haven't had a farm tyre fitted for by somebody else in over twenty years I wouldn't know where to start finding someone and am pretty sure we can do it quicker when you take into account how far they would have to come.

Always think this, plus if your desperate to get going you can to use the string stuff to get you home, I bet I could get a lift home and back and fix it loads quicker on a roadside job!

I change them all my self only harder ones or 2 man job is single ‘beaded/dished’?rims ( if I described that properly) gives you less room to get beads on and off most tractors are easy Jcb has the more difficult rims on.

Could not imagine having a flat waiting hours for some one to attend when I could get it sorted straight away? Not to mention the savings!

 

[Terry Elsey Tyres]

I’ve got a tractor and telehandler wanting tyres soon and was wondering if it’s much cheaper for me to buy tyres online (such as big tyres.co.uk) or is it not worth it and let local tyre firm do them?

what size you after .

 

[Speedstar]

Always think this, plus if your desperate to get going you can to use the string stuff to get you home, I bet I could get a lift home and back and fix it loads quicker on a roadside job!

I change them all my self only harder ones or 2 man job is single ‘beaded/dished’?rims ( if I described that properly) gives you less room to get beads on and off most tractors are easy Jcb has the more difficult rims on.

Could not imagine having a flat waiting hours for some one to attend when I could get it sorted straight away? Not to mention the savings!

Problem with a lot of JCB rims is they are on the wrong way round you need to take the wheel off to get the bead over the rim , Local tyre lad says the do not doing JCB machines

 

[Nearly]

I tend to get a different tractor out rather than change tyres.
There are enough spare wheels here that if I do need to swap one I can drop it off at the tyre house a week later, go wander around the scrapyard, get a bacon butty and a coffee then pick the mended wheel up.

Putting tyres onto rims is easy compared to taking the old one off.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

had a new back tyre and tube on my davey brown this morning, 15 minutes from the time he put the jack under to taking it out. £35 call out.
Couldn't find the tools in that time to do it myself.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Always used to do my own, now I am old and decrepid I leave it to the tyre fitters.

had a puncture on the front wheel of a tractor, was dreading doing it, when I finally got round to it, it wasn't as hard work as I had been thinking, but as I have got older I have less inclination to do that sort of job anymore.

Years ago, I repaired a puncture on a combine front wheel, came out after bait, tyre flat! Grrrrrrr. Did someone let it down or had I pinched the tube? I rebroke the bead and checked the tube, all fine! I think my workmates were having a good laugh watching me check!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Always done my own,I use a road compressor for any tubeless that aren’t seating,never missed yet.

I remember struggling getting Tera Tyres to seat, did they then add some sort of bolts to pull the bead out?

 

[davidroberts30]

Did 2 punctures yesterday
10 mins the pair to find and plug them

Tubeless all the way

 

[yellow belly]

since tubeless tyre became the norm we have very few repaires usually do it our selves

New tyres usually buy fitted

repairs usually on tubeless use the stabber and sticky string this can fill quite big holes
if this does not work then have to patch and plug on the inside


small drill wheels are all filled with oko

 

[smcapstick]

I do all my own tyre swaps. It’s an arse of a job, especially if the wheel isn’t on a tractor.

 

[ford 7810]

I do all my own tyre swaps. It’s an arse of a job, especially if the wheel isn’t on a tractor.

I like the wheel on the tractor but I’ll be buggerd if I can brake the bead of the inside

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

I like the wheel on the tractor but I’ll be buggerd if I can brake the bead of the inside

Tyre fitter that did ours today had some sort of a tool running of his compressor, didn't hardly have to use a hammer.

 

[smcapstick]

I like the wheel on the tractor but I’ll be buggerd if I can brake the bead of the inside

I have an air actuated hydraulic bead breaker. An obnoxiously heavy tool but it can shift anything.

I’ve disconnected link arms to get behind before. Better that than risk crushing my hand between the lift rod and the breaker.

 

[ford 7810]

I have an air actuated hydraulic bead breaker. An obnoxiously heavy tool but it can shift anything.

I’ve disconnected link arms to get behind before. Better that than risk crushing my hand between the lift rod and the breaker.

I use a big lump of angle iron and sledgehammer getting to old for that sh!t.got a sun in low he handy .

 

[Pistonbroke]

Anyone tried one these in a tractor?

 

[Half Pipe]

@Pistonbroke we have used the Spalding's trucraft bead breaker for years now.
It has T handles so can only be turned by hand, sometimes stick a jack handle on end.
Does the 1 in your screenshot above have a hex or square drive?
If it's a hex be interesting to know how it would cope with a impact wrench as the power unit