Changing your own tires?

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#41 · Jul 31, 2025

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I change my children's tires! No payment.

 

PeterEden

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#42 · Aug 1, 2025

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al.gartner said:

Currently Tire Irons and a Harbor Fraught Bead Breaker. I just rolled the dice and ordered a Constands changer off eBay. The outfit is German (with questionable review history) and product is Chinese with even more questionable build quality. Could not bring myself to drop close to a grand on the Rabaconda. I know, penny wise, pound foolish, buy one cry once, etc etc etc.

This venture will either work great or fail spectacularly. I'll advise either way.

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I bought a Constands tire changer and I got it to work well once I bolted it to a wall so I could lean into it. Using it on the floor was extremely difficult, especially being a senior. For the price, I think it is a great value and now I am freed from taking it in to a shop for tire changes. Especially since I use both road and 50/50 tires depending on where I am going. Now I just put on whatever I want. Takes a couple hours including wheel removal and tire balancing. But that is what the drive times would be taking it in to a shop and retrieving them later.

Many alternate tire changers look like they work way easier. But the price of them is multiples of the Constands.

 

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#43 · Aug 4, 2025

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I have the no-mar. I don't have the room to leave it setup and ready, so I installed recessed concrete anchors that I can bolt the base down to when needed. It takes me about 10 minutes to get it setup when I need to do a tire change. Otherwise it's disassembled and sitting under my workbench.

 

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#44 · Aug 4, 2025

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mikeInPA said:

I have the no-mar. I don't have the room to leave it setup and ready, so I installed recessed concrete anchors that I can bolt the base down to when needed. It takes me about 10 minutes to get it setup when I need to do a tire change. Otherwise it's disassembled and sitting under my workbench.

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Your video my friend is why I bought mine 😁

 

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#45 · Aug 8, 2025

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So I promised an update. The Constands was ordered on or about the 31st, got a tracking number a couple of days later, absolutely zero updates after that, and FedEx shows up today with the package. Packed well. Other than the lack of shipping updates, its all good. Opened the box, it all went together, had to grind down an overzealous welds on the duckhead arm, no big there.