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Originally Posted by masheen
i am thinking of raising the entire car off the ground and onto stands by myself, and getting all the wheels off to take them to a shop to get new tires installed, because i don't want to run the risk of insulting the mechanics when telling them how to change the tires on this car, or have them ignore those instructions, or have those instructions as an excuse to charge me a lot more.
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I wouldn't give it that much effort. Before I even came in for my tire change I explained to the guys that it wouldn't go on a lift and required a padded, low-profile jack that had to be used at a certain point on the car and they were cool with that. I even brought in my jack just in case and pointed out where to lift and gave them the owner's manual for reference. They were done in about an hour or so with no issues.
What I would watch out for, though, is them overtorquing the lug nuts and overinflating the tires. I retorqued my lug nuts when I got home and a couple were tight enough that I literally had to bounce up and down on my wrench (I'm a fit 220lbs). And, last night, I finally got around to checking my air pressure (I was bad and let it go for a month or so
) my pressures were 35F and 37R
. Again, that's after over a month! No wonder the car felt numb and seemed to turn so easily. I just thought it was the fact that they were a different brand of tires.
