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The right choice of tire fitting is the key to your own safety and durability of your wheels. But how can you tell if you are a professional or a self-taught amateur before trusting him with your car?
We have to choose a place where the process of connecting the tire with the disk will take place, and for some visitors - the rearrangement of the complete wheels. Tire shops are numerous, and the workers in them are bored for most of the year, but twice a year they have a “Putina”, and motorists have queues, like for food during perestroika.
The work carried out in the tire service, with the exception of the repair of tires and wheels in case of damage, consists of two procedures: tire fitting itself (assembling the tire and rim into a single unit) and balancing the assembled wheel (combining its center of gravity with the axis of rotation ).
Mounting machine, balancing and obligatory wheel washing. After all, only clean wheels balance correctly.
Tire test group ZR answers questions
When visiting a workshop, the first thing to pay attention to is the equipment. It is clear that a non-specialist will not determine by the inscription on the machine whether it is good or bad, but you can evaluate the quality of care for the equipment. For example, if the machines are in a damp unheated room or some of their parts are simply broken off. It is better to avoid such tire fitting. Be sure to see how the car is hung out to remove the wheels. Still, it is very unhelpful to hang the car, bringing the jack under only one point of the threshold and raise the car so that both wheels are removed. A new car can get both local deformations of the threshold and a general curvature of the body. It is better if the car is hung on a lift or the wheels are already removed one by one on a jack.
So the wheel is off. When tearing off a tire from a rim (overcoming humps), it is better for especially impressionable car owners to turn away. The tire experiences significant deformation, but, fortunately, usually without irreversible consequences.
Lubricate the mating surfaces with soapy water to make it easier to seat the tire on the rim. In some workshops, the tire and disc are smeared with oil before assembly, either motor oil or used oil. If they are lightly lubricated, then the oil corrodes the rubber a little and the tire sticks to the disc better. True, when disassembling such a wheel, a piece of rubber can be pulled out of the bead. If a lot of oil has been applied, then the picture will not be funny at all. When you press the brake while driving, the wheels stop. And the tires begin to rotate relative to the rims. Do I need to say that such tires will not last long?
Sometimes the price list calculations in tire shops look insulting. I'll give you an example.
Brought new rims and tires to the tire shop. Asked to replace wheel valves. Two moves and the valve has been replaced. Then, when calculating according to the price list, they tried to calculate the replacement of four valves. But after all, the price of such work includes the disassembly of the wheel (at least partial) and only then the replacement of the valve. And on bare disks, it should cost a lot less. Well, since then I haven’t stepped into this tire shop, although it’s located next to the house. Balancing is also important. It is possible, without particularly going into theory, to determine whether the work has been done in good faith. So, on one side of the wheel, for example, the outer one, the weights (if there are several) should form a continuous segment. It is unacceptable if they are scattered around the circumference, like stars in the southern night sky.
Seasonal tire storage is a popular service. Especially in large cities, where there are fewer and fewer personal garages.
The second thing that can be easily identified visually is the way the wheel fasteners are tightened. If the workshop workers exclusively use an impact wrench and do not check the tightness of the wheels with a torque wrench, then it is most likely better not to stop here either.
What is the risk to you and your car if you visit a workshop that provides poor service? A bad wheel assembly can lead to tire damage. In the easiest case, this is the probability of air escaping at the junction of the disk and tire, and I don’t want to talk about the worst. Poor balancing can lead to increased vibration at high speeds, tire wear and suspension parts. Tightening wheel fasteners, and especially locks, "from the heart" threatens with stripped threads, elongated studs or bolts.
After visiting a bad tire shop, you can get a lot of trouble associated with unforeseen expenses of money and time for suspension repairs and not only, replacement of prematurely worn tires. There are more significant risks - health and life, which cannot be measured by any money.
And do not think that these are just words - a wheel bursting at high speed can lead to extremely sad consequences.
Here you can change the wheels, or you can do some locksmith work.
Let's move to summer: frequently asked questions
In order not to be bored while changing shoes, you can look into the wheel arches and check the wear of the brake discs and pads, the condition of the levers, steering rods and CV joints, if, of course, you understand what it is about.
And do not forget: the high price announced for the services is by no means a guarantee of the high quality of the work performed. Prices also vary greatly depending on the region in which you have to visit the tire shop. Even in the Moscow region, prices are significantly lower than in the capital, and in neighboring regions a set of wheels can sometimes be changed for the money that a Moscow motorist pays for one wheel (though with removal and installation).
In conclusion, I will tell you what else I had to deal with personally. Once, several car owners gathered in line near the tire shop. The old master (while the student is working) shares his experience: “It is impossible to repair the wheel normally with flagella, they are weak.” It so happened that it was at this moment that the author took out a wheel from the trunk of the car, which had to be repaired on the road with flagella.
This is how a wheel repaired in the field with harnesses looked like
Background. On the tram tracks flew tiles. In the rain and in the dark, at three o'clock in the morning I ran into her with a wheel. The sidewall is broken in two places. The spare wheel is underground, and there is such a load in the trunk on top that you can’t take it out alone. Well, the flagella with the push tool were with them. The compressor was set to continuous pumping and let's install the flagella moistened with glue.
The first ones were pushed with fingers, the rest with a device. It took 14 flagella in total. The tire was completely sealed and inflated perfectly. I drove the remaining few kilometers without incident and the next day, having put on a spare tire, and having bought a tire, I went to the “professionals”. Of course, it’s not worth driving such a tire for a long time, but I highly advise you to master the technology of installing a flagellum in a hole from a self-tapping screw.
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Season of the tire -sinoMontage will open up soon, and the manner of the release of the paternal car owners will begin “ . Savings are savings, but some methods of "tariff reduction" will lead to very large and costly procedures tomorrow. Why, explains the portal "AvtoVzglyad".
Eduard Raskin
March this year turned out to be warm and with little snow, that is, many have already decided to save the spikes and switch to summer tires. It's too early, of course, but in a couple of weeks it will already be possible to safely uncover seasonal tires. There are no questions with those who have the kit assembled: in the garage or just on the street, having found a jack and a lot of interesting things in the bowels of the trunk, you can change shoes for free. But how to be happy owners of summer tires alone?
The traditional queue at the tire service station can bring a lot of new unpleasant thoughts: don't go to the grandma, prices will rise. And in order not to waste time on trifles and not to be petty, we can safely speak of a 30 percent increase in the image and likeness of older brothers - official dealers. A third from the top is expensive, many will go looking for less sophisticated and greedy tire fitters, as well as work out options for savings.
And there is something to “enter into”, so much so that after that you pay according to a completely different price list.
Point one, the classic one, is about cheese and a mousetrap. No one is ready to work at a loss and receive less profit now. Moreover, seasonal tire fitting feeds for half a year, so every penny will be taken from the visitor. If the price list is low, then the probability “you have a nail sticking out in the tire, you should patch it up” and “you need regular glue, for a day, or a double serving” is extremely high. So the price reaches the “normal”, smoothly flowing into a high one. No offense, just business.
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The second option is more honest: lower price - faster work - more customers received the service - profit. To speed up the process to the limit, it is necessary not only to make the mechanics work faster, but also to reduce some of the operations. We remove the copper grease - minus the time and consumables - and cross out the torque wrench.
We get a profit, but in which case the driver is unlikely to be able to unscrew the wheel without problems - the “trowel”, he is also a wrench, you can’t order it, but you can’t deceive physics. The lack of a special composition and overtightened fasteners lead not only to the complexity of replacing the wheel, but also to replacing the hub in some cases. How much it costs now - even scary to imagine.
The third point is for the most cunning or “balancing”. Indeed, why spend money on the procedure every time if the wheel is already round? Well, what can happen to tires and a disk on Russian roads that are even, like our fate? Tire deformation and “casting” from pits and speed bumps? No, I didn't. So the Russians themselves refuse to balance, which leads to increased fuel consumption, rapid tire wear and local destruction of the suspension. Indeed: to save a penny and the ruble is not a pity.
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When changing tires seasonally, you need to not only check the condition of tires and rims, balance them, check the condition of the bolts and the center hole, and also check the centering rings, if required.
