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Shane
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how hard is it? seen a couple of vids on youtube but is it really as easy as it looks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwfDEtk-R8&NR=1
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DaveyLC
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That video doesnt actually show them fitting the tyre using a tyre machine lol!

If you can fit a modern tyre on rim without using a tyre machine you are either super human or gifted by the gods!
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For all the hassle it probably is you're better off taking it somewhere and getting it done properly for a few quid. Once the tyre is on it'l still need balancing anyway.
Phil W
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I tried removing one once, i almost died from the fumes, and once that i had inhaled the fumes, i got covered in bits of flying rubber (angle grinder)
podge17
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looks piss easy m8
DaveyLC
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Do people seriously think its that simple??

Inflating the tyre is the easy bit! lol!
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Plus, it takes less than 5 minutes to take a tyre off and put a new one on using a machine.
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I'd be amazing if someone could even break the bead without a the machine!
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Yeah
myke
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i think it's lots of sweat with tyre irons and then scuffing up your rims for the layman, but these guys make it look quite easy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfHmjDRVBww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VwzBDsgyOc&feature=PlayList&p=E94A21CFDDDF8C87&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=22

you can drop a car off a jack onto a mounted tyre to break the bead of it apparently. Never tried myself.
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low profile car tires with no machine are impossible. But i do motorcycle tires with a bead breaker and levers.
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most modern tyres are hard to inflate too espicially cheap tyres
davcohen
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quote:
Originally posted by Phil W
I tried removing one once, i almost died from the fumes, and once that i had inhaled the fumes, i got covered in bits of flying rubber (angle grinder)


i thought they came off like a bike tyre, i was badly wrong and since have never tried, those video's make it look very easy although id imagine if i tried id end up with 2 broken wrists
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If you're pumping it up and your finger gets inbetween the tyre and the inside of the rim it'l probably take your finger tip off, they pop with some force.
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well i thouht this was amuzing lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9M6W6XxMM&NR=1
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Big tire- $250
Starter fluid-$4
Explaining to your friends why your missing your eyebrows-Priceless

Lmao @ the comment below it
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U LIKED THAT TOO TOM YEAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Edited on 27-04-2009 by adz_gsi]
ShEp
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Changing a tyre isn;t difficult,

The hardest part would be to break the bead, nigh on impossible without a bead breaker,

But a large hammer and some angle iron will help.

I've had to chage runflats with levers before, but I had a bead breaker, couldnt use the tyre machine in the van as runflat are much more robust and they'll snap the machine head.
Kurt
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quote:
Originally posted by Phil W
I tried removing one once, i almost died from the fumes, and once that i had inhaled the fumes, i got covered in bits of flying rubber (angle grinder)


Jesse , i used to cut them off quite often with a stihl saw when they came in on scrap rims
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQbKCd3ezrA&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlMhBMk3SHI&feature=related stretched
Graham88
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lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9M6W6XxMM&feature=related
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it is possible to remove a tyre, involves a lever with a piece of metal which slides, put in place and bang the slider down to break the bead round the tyre than use tyre levers with soapy water like removing a bike tyre to get off, though is a lot of hassles as people have said and is a million times easier with a machine
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my mate done it in his shed with a crowbar he said it wasnt tht hard with help from his brother but his bro does work at ats haha

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