Tire mounting in Vancouver? Anyone have a tire machine?
 

Recommendations welcome on where to go for cheap tire mounting and balancing. Just moved from Edmonton to Vancouver. Back in Edmonton there is a guy from kijiji who owned a tire machine and ran a small business out of his garage. $20-30 got your tires popped off and new ones balanced. Curious if anyone is running something like this off kijiji or craigslist in Van or surrounding cities. It's a hell of a lot better than spending $100+ on something so simple.

I think most places here charge $60-80 depending on the tire size? Depends how precious your wheel/tires are, if it's just for winters on steelies I wouldn't mind cheaping out. I think PTU auto service in Richmond only charges ~$50 for a set of 4?

Most recently I had tires done at HBL Autosports in Richmond for my mom's 3-series (low profile 19's) good job for a fair price.
In the past I've gone to RS sponsor The Speed Syndicate in Burnaby, good work as well but it's out of the way for me nowadays

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When I was calling around in the city of vancouver, I was getting prices upwards of $200!! For 14" tires. I ended up at Costco at it was a little over $100 I think.

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Mount and dismount for standard tires ~19" are $120 from my shop and most other shops I looked at, I think that price is pretty standard unless you have tires 305 and wider. 1010tires are priced very well too iirc.

Speed syndicate $100. Can't beat that for the service they provide...

lol this had been my favourite answer so far.

It's just some 14 inch steelies for an integra. I have a set of black steelies I need the new winter tires popped off and transferred to the oem 14 inch aluminum oem wheels. Only reason i'm going to even remove them is the steelies need to be balanced so when not put them on nicer looking wheels. Thanks for the replies so far guys, appreciate it.

Costco just opened up their mounting services to everyone, even if you didn't buy your tires from them. Its like $25 for a set of 4. Probably the best price in town as long as you can stand waiting in the warehouse for a few hours and end up buying a few hundred dollars worth of stuff you didn't think you needed because its cheap!

^ I'm very skeptical about $25 mount and balance for 4 wheels. That is wayyy too low for a business to charge for about 30 to 60+minutes of labour.
But if you're right, that's one hell of a deal. Costco uses pretty nice tire machines.

When I did it at Costco last year it was over 100 bones.

as with most things is costco, they arent really concerned with making a huge profit, just getting you in

Most places in East Van will do it for $20/tire... so $80 total.

The thing is, those tire mounting/balancing machines... decent ones cost upwards of $15,000... so while it's nice that guy in EDM had a biz in his garage doing it, he must have gotten some serious favours somewhere to grab a machine on the cheap because it would take him 500 tire changes at $30 a pop to even make back the cost of the machine let alone the 500hrs of time he spent doing those 500 tire changes.

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it's $15/tire according to redflagdeals. Still a good deal but be prepared to wait a very long time

Now to find a Costco where you actually trust the techs not to do any damage to the finish.

$15/wheel, M/B, is pretty cheap, especially for any size.

Speed Syndicate in Burnaby, and DriveHard Performance in Richmond. Some $20-25 a wheel for mount + balance (16-17"), and they're touchless.

If your rims are beaters, Kal Tire is also about the same price, but their machines aren't touchless. And their techs tend to trash your wheels using pry bars.

I worked in the Costco tire shop in Langford years ago.

Staff took pretty good care while mounting and dismounting but I'm not sure I would take high end larger wheels there.

I was pretty excited when they got the "Cheetah" bead blaster but never got a chance to use it to stretch tires :lol

I had my winters mounted at National Tire in Burnaby a couple years ago for $60/set.