Tire Change Charge

[Rick54]

I have read where many of you folks have replaced your tires for reasons of wear, performance or other reasons. I was wondering what kind of prices a dealer might charge to change one or both tires? For the purpose of this question, lets assume you've bought your new tires from a website and are just having the dealer remove the old and mount the new.

[hondamatic]

I just happened to notice a sign at the dealership when picking up my new PCX. Sign posted on the wall, tire change prices, $15 if just wheel, $45 if still mounted to motorcycle/scooter. This is in the Midwest, Missouri in Lee's Summit.
Hope this answers your question.

[k2apache6.0]

$15 each at my dealer if you didn't buy the tires there, that's an off the bike price, wheels in hand.

[Rick54]

Well I don't find that to be a bad price. Since I don't own a bike yet, I have no idea how hard it is to remove the rear tire and would have to take the bike in. I'm sure some of you have invested in bike tools, bike stands etc. to help with all these sort of repairs. Hopefully, I can befriend some scooter folks that do their own repairs, updates and such, where I could look over their shoulder to see how these things are done.

[honkerman]

Well I don't find that to be a bad price. Since I don't own a bike yet, I have no idea how hard it is to remove the rear tire and would have to take the bike in. I'm sure some of you have invested in bike tools, bike stands etc. to help with all these sort of repairs. Hopefully, I can befriend some scooter folks that do their own repairs, updates and such, where I could look over their shoulder to see how these things are done.

The front wheel is easy. Remove the caliper, remove the axle, done. The rear wheel requires removal of the exhaust (if you have a stock exhaust), detatchment of the right shock, removal of the right swing arm bit, and removal of the axle nut, oh, and loosening the rear mini-fender whoozit. I think that's everything. It does require a few tools as well as a breaker bar or impact driver and a torque wrench.

[flyingzonker]

$15 each at my dealer if you didn't buy the tires there, that's an off the bike price, wheels in hand.

That is enormously cheap. I live far from the dealer who sod me my bike. I have been quoted 50$ to change a front tire, if the tire is brought in. This cooled my ardor to have the job done for me. So I did it myself. Not hard if you have the right tools.

[Mel46]

We take our to our dealer and then just go off to lunch while the do it. We bring in the tire. If they are taking them off and putting them on, they balance the tire if it needs it and test ride the bike to make sure it is OK for riding. It is $50 per tire. We usually only change out one tire at a time anyway due to wear times, with the rear being changed more often.

[Blazinby]

if you can change a bicycle tyre they're pretty much the same

three tyre levers and some brute force (there is a dot on the tyre that goes opposite the valve for balance)

front wheel drops out with the caliper still in place

there is more involved taking the back wheel off but it does give good access for cleaning normally unreachable bits

$15 sounds cheap enough but if you need to take the wheels off anyway.....