The current wheel/tire combo on my motorcycle where the wheel is good but the tire is cracking and dry rotted, and I have another wheel/tire combo that has a bad wheel but a good tire. What is a reasonable cost to have a shop take both tires off both wheels and put the good tire on the good wheel?
Front wheels, and they are NOT the spoked kind.
I can see that costing $30 to $50 locally to me. This town isn't real great about a lot of things like this, though, I think the shop I liked in Denver would be 1/2 that. YMMV
It would cost $25 in south Florida. The problem is that every time I brought in a wheel they always tell me the bearings are bad and I need to change them.
~$30-$50 here.
Fwiw, Harborfreight has brought back their motorcycle tire changing attachment for the automotive tire changer. I've not used it, yet. But I did promptly go and buy one. Think it's currently $39, sale price.
$39.99 http://www.harborfreight.com/motorcycle-tire-changer-attachment-60810.html
foxtrapper wrote: ~$30-$50 here. Fwiw, Harborfreight has brought back their motorcycle tire changing attachment for the automotive tire changer. I've not used it, yet. But I did promptly go and buy one. Think it's currently $39, sale price.
I have the automotive tire changer and a close Harborfreight...
The local BMW dealer charges $20 to pull a bad tire and mount a new one - I bring in the wheel and tires. This is for any wheel, not just BMW. drop it off at lunch, done by 5:00 that day. I would expect $30 tops for what you are asking for.
Look for smaller shops. Dealerships usually cost more and take longer, and this is really not a skilled job (meaning lots of places can do it well)
There is only one bike/atv/motorsports store in the town I'm at. And they normally charge $25 for mounting and balancing, since they have to remove the good tire from the bad wheel they want $30-35. Seems it is not totally out of line based on the responses.
Wheel only (off the bike), dismount, mount & balance would cost $35/wheel at my old shop.
In reply to fritzsch:
Yep, they're right in line with normal
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