How to remove tyres from a rim diy

Some drift guys do this, suppose if you know what you are doing then it is quicker than using the tyre van. Also condition of the rim and balancing is irrelevant.
 
Dogbreath said:
Once you have one bead off, the other is easier since you have more flexibility within the tyre



Why would this be a joke? What "easier" ways would there be if you have no automated tyre machines to do the bead breaking etc? Using a screwdriver and a crowbar with no rim protection as in the first video is stupid, and is likely to lead to damage to either the rim, the tyre or the person removing the tyre, but the technique is still the same when using proper tyre levers.

This thread certainly shows which people have never attempted to changed a tyre themselves :D
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joke because it would decimate the rim. i dont even care about asthetics that much but i wouldnt drag a crow bar round mine like that!

with a bit of sympathy it could still be done but there is no need to trash the rim
 
Matt82 said:
joke because it would decimate the rim. i dont even care about asthetics that much but i wouldnt drag a crow bar round mine like that!

with a bit of sympathy it could still be done but there is no need to trash the rim
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I agree, you need proper tyre levers and rim protection is needed if you are working on nice alloys (a length of garden hose split lengthways works well). However, there is no "easier" way that I know of, other than to pay someone else.
 
I don't understand why anybody would even want to change their own tyres.

It costs so little for someone else to do it, it seems pointless.

Even at the garage at work, where they have the required machinery to change tyres if they wish, they still get someone else to do it.
 
***** way of breaking the seal is to run the tyre over with your motor/tipper/transit van. :D
Once the seal is broke the rest is fairly straight forward, You can even balance it yourself to a degree using a scaffold bar & a couple of crates/boxes.
***** or what. :p
 
atpbx said:
I don't understand why anybody would even want to change their own tyres.

It costs so little for someone else to do it, it seems pointless.

Even at the garage at work, where they have the required machinery to change tyres if they wish, they still get someone else to do it.
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This tbh.
Also whilst it a tyre fitter doesn't need to be a genius, getting it wrong yourself could result in a blowout.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
This tbh.
Also whilst it a tyre fitter doesn't need to be a genius, getting it wrong yourself could result in a blowout.
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Why would you even contemplate changing your own tyres if you are incompetent? I fully agree that the vast majority of people should simply take their car to a tyre fitters, but there are circumstances where doing it yourself may be the only option.

Personally I always put my own tyres on my bikes, but wouldn't bother on a road car unless there were exceptional circumstances.
 
I was doing it like this when I was a teenager with tractor tyres and a sledge hammer.
That kept you fit!!
 
When I was 16, I knew somebody with an old school type village garage. They serviced, mot'd and fixed all the locals cars. Everything from Viva's to Cortina's etc. Proper vintage stuff by todays standards.

There was an area where they did wheels and tyres! This was a proper manual labour type thing with a metal post/stand thing concreted into the ground that you would put the wheel onto. A centre part was fitted to lock the wheel down and then you would break the bead of the tyre and slap loads of tyre soap on the bead. By taking a long steel pole you would put the end onto the bead and it would lock onto the rim, you had to then turn/slide it around the wheel and if you got it right, the bead would slide out. When I first tried it I just could not get the hang of it lol. But after a while I was changing tyres like they were nothing. Made me laugth as everyone else had proper machines for this job and it made me feel like I was in the stoneage lol
 
Fuzz said:
I was doing it like this when I was a teenager with tractor tyres and a sledge hammer.
That kept you fit!!
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Long before some people on this forum were born I used to work at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford. One day a couple of colleagues and I got roped in to help the late Ray Hanna change the tyres on his Mustang. That's the plane, not the car. Normally they used a bog-standard mobile tyre fitting service, but for some reason one wasn't available. Getting the old tyres off wasn't too bad, because we had actual full-size tyre levers (get your grandfather to tell you what those are). But fitting the new ones was a nightmare. Yes, we used Fairy liquid - it's an old trick. But getting the inner edge of the tyre over the rim was all but impossible, even with four of us and three tyre levers. It involved a LOT of physical effort, a certain amount of blood as tyre levers slipped, and vast amounts of swearing. After well over half an hour we gave up. Quikfit or whoever it was turned up the next day and did it in about two minutes.
 
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