went to Mr Lube around the corner from me to get my winters put on...i'd normally go to my indie, but i paid for the "drive thru" service...had to wait a few minutes to get in, put it was pretty quick and painless...$67 for a tire swap but you get free michelin wiper blades (special ends tomorrow)...i'll bring the Sorento in the morning to get it done...if i needed more done, i'd likely just get the indie to do it, but i don't need anything else.
Call me cheap but that seems like a lot to just swap out wheels if already mounted on separate rims. Maybe you do not have dedicated rims and it involves mounting and balancing. In that case it is a good price.
I still do my own winter / summer wheel change over. In great part to save cost but also do the fact that even if I do go to my indi to have it done I still have to load tires in the car, go and wait for service then unload the tires out of the car. Still lugging tires wheels either way so I might as well just to the bloody change.
What would make it simple for me is to find a place that will store wheels and therefore when I am a weeeeee bit older I would not have to lug wheels at all. The added bonus is freeing up storage space in my garage for more junk. My friend store his wheels at a local tire place. But they charge him for storage and re-balancing the wheels at every seasonal change over. It is just a cash grab. He does not seems to care but I would not agree to it. Way too expensive for me.
Too bad Costco does not offer tire storage.
Back on topic. Once I find tire changeover too hard I will bite the bullet and get it done for me. I would not bother buying on of these tire changers.
Maybe another option for me is to have a mobile tire change over service come and do it right at my home. Seen them around Montreal doing this. That way they can lug the wheels around for me.
