terabyte

It's about time for me to rotate my 19 inch wheels and tires. I have a staggered setup and I called around for a tire rotation and it costs me $220. Is this right? I didnt know it was that much!!!

Obviuosly, I need to remount all 4 tires and exchange them from left to right and vice versa. But gosh, $220!?!?!?!

If anyone knows of a cheaper place in Southern California where I can do this...it would be highly appreciated.

rlee02135

damn, its only $140 on the east coast

myNAMESterry

what's stopping you from doing this yourself???? do you have directional tires?



btw... america's tire co will do it for a lot cheaper

wnycec

you cant rotate staggered tires which are directional... correct?

C43AMG

Not without removing them from the rims and re-mounting.

terabyte

this is an America's Tire quote. they said this is 2 hours of labor because of the size of the wheels. I guess this is a legit price. Ill just extend another 10k miles cuz im only going to rotate once.

ANGEL1

HOLY COW..........over $200.00 for rotate them tires?

I guess I am lucky..........I have friends that works at tires shops
and they usually charge me $30.00 to do all 4's for my 18"
and $50.00 to do all 4's on 19's

this is including dismounting, remounting, and balancing all four tires

anything over 17" rims are tough to demount and remount since most of the time requires two to three person to hold the tires in and out of the rims

make sure the shop use a plastic cover on their tools or they will scratch you nice rims up........

maverick5.0

here they charge me 10.00 USD per tire dismounting/mounting and 5.00 USD
per tire for balancing.

zoomie

wow, i hadn't really thought about this 'til i just read the thread. I know how often the service manual says to rotate tires, but how often do you guys actually do it?

CurYousGee

remounting and rebalancing can be quite expensive if you go to a chain tire shop, try a local tire shop / independent. I pay $10 bucks for mine and $7 bucks for flat/nail repair done the right way where they dismount the tires and grind down the hole and reseal and then place a patch on the inside, none of the plug crap.

If you are close pomona, or willing to drive, go to Andy's tire, best deal in town, I drive from SGV to Pomona sometimes if i need to do that many flips on tires.

zoomie

I answered my own question:

Rotating by remounting is like putting on new tires. So the cost is roughly $18/19 per tire/rim + tax.

WNYCEC is right. Rotating left to right by removing the rim wouldn't help. The tires would still run on the same edge as it did prior to rotating. Directional staggered setup doesn't allow for any other rotation other than left to right which isn't even worth doing...let alone it costing $80-100 to do.

Closed thread...

19clk430

That seems like a lot of money for a rotation. I go to costco to get my tires rotated and the last time i went it was $10 a rim ( had 18's staggered ). So $200 seems like a lot to me.

zoomie

The $200 price is dismounting the actual rim from each tire and installing it back on. The price you're looking at for $10/a pop is for simply taking the tire/rim off the car and bolting it back onto another side. Your $10 thing takes 5 min total. Removing the actual rim takes a bit longer.

OJwerks

I pay $50 to get the wheels off the car, the tires off the wheel...remounted on the other side, balanced, and back on to the car, i have 18" staggered... I do this every 5000 miles.... it REALY extends the life of my tires, specially with the aggressive camber im running!!

zoomie

Telling us the good deal doesn't really help the rest of us unless you tell us where. what shop, how you found it...etc.

MarcusF

Mercedes-Benz of Valencia. Southern California. $125. I don't personally rotate, but that's the total I was charged to

• Dismount four tires
• Mount four brand new tires
• Balance four wheels
• Disposal fee for old tires

Other tires stores should be cheaper, but as soon as they see Mercedes-Benz, many of them use the "other" fee schedule for parts and services. Sounds like OJWerks found a shop that doesn't charge based on manufacturer.

krayzie_e99

wow, that is way too much. i got charged 80 bucks for my staggered 19in setup. go to a local mom and pop shop and avoid these big chain stores. they see its a mercedes and will try to up their prices because of that

OJwerks

^^^ exactly

chinesekid

why dont you guys just do it yourself? if your just rotating from left to right... and i guess im luckey that i work at a benz dealership.. i get to dismount and mount it myself

CurYousGee

Zoomie, $10/ a pop is for dismount flip and remount, not for tire rotation at costco, back in the day Costco use to do it without buying tires from them, and at Andys tires in Pomona. I use to do it all the time with the bad camber and before the camber kit. and yes, its dismount, swap the tires, remount, then balance, and then mount back on to the car for $10...your being taking for a ride if they are asking $200

zoomie

wow $40 total? that's awesome. The lowest i found so far was $17/tire from Big O.

zoomie

We're talknig about directional tires which means the tire has to be removed from the rim. I don't have equipment to do that myself. I can't imagine most of us do.