Removing one side tires

rhagfo wrote:

Lantley wrote:

Edd505 wrote:

traildog wrote:
I need to take the tires off of my TT (preferably 2 at a time) to take them to the tire store for replacement.

The store won’t remove them (an quite frankly, I’m ok with that). So, how can I lift one side at a time safely, to remove the tires?

2021 Coachmen Freedom Express with a wide gap between the tires.

Frankly I wouldn't deal with a tire shop that won't R&R the tires, that's part of their job in MHO.

I agree with you in theory but there are quite a few tire shops that don't have the room to accomodate a 50'+ RV combo.

While that may be true, there are many that can easily handle a long combination. DD bought a new horse trailer before she had a truck, so Dad took his truck to pick it up. Tires were questionable, so first stop was Discount tire.

Not everyone has a "discount tire" or big box store chain near them.

I used to have a Sears, Montgomery Wards, Kmart and a smattering of a bunch of full service stations but alas those are 100% gone forever..

Instead, I now have a Sam's club and a couple of Mom and Pop tire shops.

Sam's club, well if you count a small alleyway between buildings as sufficient then you must be suicidal.. Not to mention, have known a few of the "mechanics" that worked in Sam's tire shop there over the yrs.. The tails of snot nosed uncaring young kids out of school with no other education isn't the best ideas when your life is riding on their poor workmanship..

Pretty much all of the box retailers will hire folks with no experience and give them minimal training on proper mounting, air guns and no training on torque wrenches..

Calling them mechanics is doing real mechanics a disservice.

Heck, I even had one of the supposed Sears mechanics damage a new tire when they couldn't figure out that with rims with offset drop centers you must mount the tire from one side only. They didn't mount it from the correct side and I discovered I had a flat tire only 5 miles from the shop..

I have only one small Mom and pop tire shop that has enough real estate to take on a truck trailer combo.. That shop does their main business with trucking fleets and independent truckers and consumer business is a bit of shelf filler.. But, they have very well trained mechanics which know how to properly use air guns and torque wrenches.. Expensive? you bet..