PCA SDR

Are there any tires shops in town who don't mind to just dismount, mount and balance tires at a reasonable price?

I have been using Discount Tires for many years now and have managed to lower the price most of the time by asking for PCA discount etc. But I am getting tired of having to deal with these guys, the price, explaining that they can't match the price of my tires and that I need them shaved.

Today, I had four dismounts, three mounts (one of my rims needs repair) and five tires total to recycle. Price $98.90 and the weights are already loose. This is the most I've payed to mount tires.

You would expect the same service at the track to be more expensive, but yet I only paid approx. $80 at Buttonwillow and California Speedway to dismount, mount, balancing and recycle four tires. And on top they taped the weights down for free.

Martin, I can't comment on tire shops (I don't know anything ) but taping wheel weights has been a part of routine race prep for since Ben Hur's days of racing dirt track.

Martin-

Now that Import Tire has closed, I was going to try Bear Tire out in Miramar. Haven't used them yet, but they get good reports from the SCCA guys.858-453-2999 at 7023 Carroll Road.

TT

ttweed wrote:Martin-
Now that Import Tire has closed, I was going to try Bear Tire out in Miramar. Haven't used them yet, but they get good reports from the SCCA guys.858-453-2999 at 7023 Carroll Road.
TT

Thanks Tom, I will check them out.

I recently started using a shop call Team Power Tires at 6130 El Cajon Boulevard, just east of College (got the name from some other posting here). They are pretty basic, but very reasonable (around $12.50 to mount and balance a tire). Nothing fancy, but O.K.

Bear Tires is the place to go.
Quick, honnest and cheap.
Been going there for a couple of years.

Import Tire was the best! I now have been using Bear Tire at the suggestion of Jae Lee. They have been great! I have tried several others closer to me (Rancho Bernardo) with very disapointing results.

Thank you for all the input.

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...

Thanks Don, that's easier to get to from where we live.

For North County drivers, the Discount Tire shop at 78 and El Camino Real charges me $13 per wheel for mount, balance and discard of old tire. They are very quick.

Martin, come to laguna and have topless performance do the mounting, 20 bucks a tire, done.

Thanks Kary, I ordered a set from Topless Performance which will be delivered and mounted at Laguna Seca.

Note to Jennifer: These are Tires not Dancers

martinreinhardt wrote:Thanks Kary, I ordered a set from Topless Performance which will be delivered and mounted at Laguna Seca.

Note to Jennifer: These are Tires not Dancers

I had the same problem with my wife the other day when she borrowed my phone: she wanted to know why I had Topless in my address book. The irony is that dancers would be a lot cheaper.

kurquhart wrote: The irony is that dancers would be a lot cheaper.

Not if you want them delivered & mounted