That was a first

Yesterday i took the War dept.'s Durango in to get new shoes since the Good For A Year broke a belt and it was driving like a clown car. anyway where i get tires is a little low over head tire shop out in the boonies they work in and unheated shop they have four tire machines and four balancers and god only knows how many floor jacks . You pullin and two guys go to work removing all four tires . Well just before i was pulled in a guy with a 1500 dodge 4x4 was getting four new tires . Looked like a NASCAR pit stop till his tires got to the tire machine . No matter how they tried to break the bead they would not break down . So here comes the tire hammers and wedges , still they will not break down . So they rool them out of the shop and fire up and old case backhoe and try the stabilizers , Nope that won't do it . Then they bring them back in and take a sawzall to the side walls and cut the tires off the rims , next comes the die grinders with cut off wheels and they cut the bead wires and still the bead will not let go of the rim I am standing there watching and Jimmy says to me ya know thirty five years in the tire business and i have never seen this before . Whoever installed them tires must have super glued them on the rims .Once the bead wire was gut they had to use air chisels to peal the rest off.

I thought you were gonna say they forgot to deflate 'em first!

No , they deflate the fast way by pull the valve out of the rims not just the core or i should say CUT and a new valve is installed .

I have seen them glued on to the rims. That would be for off roading vehicles where they run less than 10 lbs air pressure for better traction. What did the truck look like?

Some shops use a urethane like you'd use to glue a windshield in place so the tire will seat to the aluminum rim and not leak air.

you see all the skates up in the corner,really nice guys to deal with there too...

Wonder if they charged the normal mount and balance fee for all that work? It they did I'd say they went in the hole on that deal.

Where you located vet? I followed a Durango here on the NY/Pa border yesterday and the left front tire had a broken belt I could see every time it went around...wasn"t you was it? And here in Hallstead Pa we have a shop just like you describe that sells tires!

I miss being 10 minutes from Finck Tire in Cambridge Springs. They always had 16" tires for around $120 included mount and balance.
Your Good-fer-a-year's weren't Wrangler Radials were they? I wouldn't run them things on a go-cart!

last summer I had an original front from a 1961 Ford blow out so I took it to the shop down the road when I went to pick it up he told me that it was around $100.00 because he had to work at it for about two hours. It was a heavy one because it had a loader. If I had known I would have just cut it off. That's what I will do with the other side.

I'm on my second set of Goodyear wranglers on my 03 ford. 140000 miles. I haven't had one bit of trouble with them. That's what I intend to buy next time.