Best place to have tires and rims mounted and balanced?

[Conor]

So I just ordered my 24's and my tires. First time I have purchased both wheels and tires online, but I have heard in the past that it can be a challange to find a shop that will mount and balance 24's if you didn't buy either the wheels or tires from that shop.
Has anyone else had issues with that? I have heard the Sears will do it, but I dought they can do 24's. Any help would be great. Thanks

 

[Excon11]

Yeah, most shops won't touch a set from an online site. I too bought new rims for my old truck with tires. I think its because of there warranty or something like that but if you heard sears will do it id start there.

 

[Conor]

I bought the tires from Discounttiredirect because you can get them for cheaper and tax free. I am wondering im Discount Tire will install them since technically I did buy from them

 

[turboeclips]

If you have a Discount tire in your area, might want to check with them. I just purchased a stock set of Honda rims for the wifes CRV and had Discount tire swap the tires over to the new rims. These were only 17's... so that might be why there was no problem. The guy even offered to sale me a warranty for the tires, which were original dealer tires.

 

[Modded]

Discount Tire or NTB will do it, they are doing mine.

 

[Narco]

Kauffman

 

[turboeclips]

Discount Tire or NTB will do it, they are doing mine.

Conor and Modded...

what did you end up getting?

 

[rgaffney]

Discount tire matched whatever deal I found online and mounted them for relatively cheap. All in all they treated me really well.

 

[Conor]

Conor and Modded...

what did you end up getting?

Auto Couture
Tranform 5 in chrome. I have wanted Auto Couture rims for ever. CANT ******* WAIT

 

[jerryp]

I'd try Discount Tire

I've purchased 8 sets of tires from Discount Tire (primarily the location in Bellevue, WA at 12950 Bel-Red Road) over the past 15 years or so. Always happy with their service, quality of work and willingness to match Tire Rack prices.

Not certain if they will mount 24" but I suspect they will.

Good luck.

 

[Modded]

Conor and Modded...

what did you end up getting?

Twenty Inch Strong 24s, I'm waiting and excited like Conor too!

 

[Narco]

Discount tire matched whatever deal I found online and mounted them for relatively cheap. All in all they treated me really well.

Kauffman will price match too on their website. Discount Tire was nice when I went to them and they were gonna price match but told me they wanted to charge me $10 per tire to put the TPMS in when Kauffman is gonna do it for free 1 month AFTER I already had the wheels mounted. DT also charged about $5 more per tire to mount/balance than Kauffman does.

 

[hapyspaz]

Always be careful who does it the cheapest may not be the way to go.

Most places dont have techs that have dealt with 24's, or even have the proper equipment to do them. Most places will just tell you the cheap price to get you in the door.

My guys are awesome when it comes to oversized wheels, but they refuse to do them unless I charge extra. Average is $1 per inch of wheel.

Once they are mounted, then you need to get a proper balance. Most shops out there just have your standard balance machines. You really need someone to use a "RoadForce" balancer on the larger wheels to make sure the tires and wheels are matched as close as possible. We charge $25 per wheel for RoadForce balancing.

 

[moneymayweather]

I bought my 24 inch rims and tires online and Discount Tire did them for me with no problems at all.

 

[dychen]

Here's what you really should do. Find the local Chevy/Cadillac dealer ask them who they use to mount the aftermarket tires and rims. Almost every dealer I've ever dealt with has aftermarket rims/tires packages. They usually use a local source to mount them. Those are the guys that know what they will be doing and not screw your shit up.

 

[Hurlz07Tahoe]

Every time I've had wheel/tire work done in the Seattle area I found that les schwab does the best work and they have hooked me up a couple of times with free service. I just had some balancing and alignment done at 4wheelparts and les schwab corrected what 4wheelparts couldn't and they did it at no charge.

It's too late now but most tires places around here will match whatever deal you find online or at a competitor (that's why I went through 4wheelparts).

 

[kevpierson]

Discount Tire for certain. They are the only reputable tire shop in the North Texas area who have the ability to mount 24s... Sears, Firestone, etc. were unable to patch a flat for my 24s on a Sunday while DT was closed. They could not do a rim larger than 20". Not sure about Seattle, though.