Recommendations on tire mounting and balancing?

[uv23]

My Pirellis should be arriving next week and I'll hopefully have my 18s back from AWR soon. In the past, I've always taken my car to KalTire on 42nd ave, off of mcleod and they've taken good care of it. But I'm feeling a bit anxious about taking it to a regular place after having my wheels refinished. Does everyone use the same equipment for mounting? Tunerworks, where I bouht my tires, uses someone else but I can't remember who. I'm guessing TirerCraft, which is also in that area.

[R_Ethug]

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i take my stuff to harpers in the south.. kinda near chinook mall they are one of the best in the city.. they do up to like 24 or 26" blingers so i know they take good care of your stuff.

[Kor]

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Harpers is awesome.

[uv23]

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Thanks guys, I'll give 'em a call.

[Aleks]

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Find out how much for a balance, I need mine done....

[B5]

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Does everyone use the same equipment for mounting?

Not really, but every equipment serve the same purpose to balance a wheel with tire on. Plus and minus 5.0% off is the industry standard I heard. Some machines can achieve less % variation some can’t. Chances are you will feel nothing because you are using the wheels on the street. It will make more sense to care about the percentage off(+/-) if the wheels are going to mount on a race car because it is going to encounter a faster speed.

If you wheel need to use more than 6 oz. of weight to get it balanced, which means the brand you bought did a very bad job on making the rim.

[Canadian Turbo]

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Tunerworks uses Harper, I spent many hours there with the IForged fiasco last year.

[uv23]

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Tunerworks uses Harper, I spent many hours there with the IForged fiasco last year.

Details?

[Canadian Turbo]

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Oh well most people know the story but my Dad got Iforged wheels for his TT and whenthey came to be mounted the rear offsets were wrong and did not clear the brakes so we spent a lot of time trying to get it to work as it was in a show that weekend. No problems with Harpers, they stayed late to help us out, good place!!

[Simon]

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Oh well most people know the story but my Dad got Iforged wheels for his TT and whenthey came to be mounted the rear offsets were wrong and did not clear the brakes so we spent a lot of time trying to get it to work as it was in a show that weekend. No problems with Harpers, they stayed late to help us out, good place!!

Harpers stores your winter wheels for you too.

[uv23]

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Find out how much for a balance, I need mine done....

Just called. Mounting and road force balancing all four is $150 incl. tax, but not incl. valve stems (gotta try and find me some stainless ones as Harpers only has black and chrome).

[uv23]

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Harpers stores your winter wheels for you too.

I asked them about that as well. They'll only store them if I bought my tires from them.

[Kor]

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That seems kinda expensive for 4 wheels though doesnt it? I would think $20-$25 each...

[uv23]

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That seems kinda expensive for 4 wheels though doesnt it? I would think $20-$25 each...

It seemed expensive to me as well. I'm going to give kaltire on 42 ave a ring later and see how much they'd charge.

[James]

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It seemed expensive to me as well. I'm going to give kaltire on 42 ave a ring later and see how much they'd charge.

Ya, let me know, Im gonna need to get my wheels balanced soon and $125 seems over the top, I was expecting in the 60-80 range