Can anyone tell me the justification for charging $40-100 to mount rear tires.

I have heard these excuses from tire dealers...

1.) We have to take extra precautions to protect your rims.

2>) We have to reprogram your computer

3.) It takes 2 hours to mount 1 tire.

4.) It costs more to operate the machinery to mount a 19" low profile tire.

Don't you love it when places like Town Fair refuses to sell you 2 tires when your front tires have planty of thread...then ***** if u don't buy them there?

What is involved in the tire pressure monitoring system? Anyone know how it works?

 

I just bought new Goodyear F1 all-seasons from Tire Rack and they have an installer section where you punch in your zip code and they provide you a listing of installers, some with price pledge showing you what they will charge. Big O Tires was on the list in my area and installed mine for $17.50/tire - no questions asked. Yes it apparently is harder to install lower profile tires and the guy at the Big O shop only lets the service manager mount 40 series or wider tires (at least that is what he told me). Granted I typically wouldn't take my beloved Xfire SRTs wheels and tires to a Big O store, but Tire Rack said if there was any problem they would work it out....I had none and it worked out. I have also used Discount Tire in my area with good service and price. My TPMS worked with no hitches (I mountes non SRT rims with all seasons for the Ohio winter and stored my SRT wheels with PS2s for next summer - the non SRT wheels had the TPMS sensors in the wheels and the car picked them right up - no issues.

 

$40-$100 per tire or for the pair?

$40 for the pair isn't too bad these days...I wouldn't pay more than $50. Mounting a 255/35 street tire on a 19x9 should be cake for anyone who knows what they're doing. You to make sure they know that there is a TPMS system...they'll have to be a bit more careful (which might justify a few more bucks than if you didn't have TPMS).

If you're trying to jam a 315/30 race tire on there, then they might be able to make some excuses about how hard it is, but any oem-size street tire should be cake...not even 2 hours for 4, let alone 1.

 

Town Fair quoted me the $75 per tire price some smaller places wanted $40-100 per tire. Calling around I found several $12-20/tire