Tire mounting shops in San Diego

[mrondeau]

The irony is that dancers would be a lot cheaper.

Not if you want them delivered & mounted

What torque do you tighten them to when you mount them?/

[martinreinhardt]

Martin, Preston's Tire and Wheel on Center Drive in Grossmont Center did the dismount/mount/balance thing this past spring for me for $12.50/wheel. I'm sure they are a little higher now due to the lead price increase, but they are far better than Discount.

Quality shop, and Preston has an RS America...

I needed one tire mounted and balanced today, so I tried Preston's Tire and Wheel: $14.50. It was done quickly.

Still I will try to schedule my tire mounting on the race track and/or buy a tire mounting maschine in the future.

[Mike]

fwiw, Years ago I had some tires mounted by the tire shop at Big Willow.
The tire jockey related to me his experiance with all the tires they mounted during a recent 4 hour enduro.
He then proceeded to run his crow bar into the seal where my rims halves met. Created a leak between the rim halves rendering the rim useless.
I'd rather have that happen at home far enough in advance of the event to have time to re-seal the rim.

[kurquhart]

fwiw, Years ago I had some tires mounted by the tire shop at Big Willow.
The tire jockey related to me his experiance with all the tires they mounted during a recent 4 hour enduro.
He then proceeded to run his crow bar into the seal where my rims halves met. Created a leak between the rim halves rendering the rim useless.
I'd rather have that happen at home far enough in advance of the event to have time to re-seal the rim.

I agree with your concern, in general. However, I do recommend Topless with no reservations. Their business model is to drive a semi full of race tires to the track and spend all weekend mounting/balancing tires. I have used them three times this year, and have a set of tires ordered for LS.