MPawelek

They did the same on my previous two SL’s because they rode too low to clear their regular lifts.

DBH

The guys in Brooklyn do this as well except they don't bring the wheels back!

Nashvegas

Places like Discount Tire, Costco or any tire store stress me out ! It is really luck of the draw. All it takes is one time of them jacking up your 911 under the exhaust and ... you'll never go back to one. I've been burned. Unless you have a specific place or tech who is good. But even then, you get a different careless tech, etc ...

There's probably another option besides the dealer or the tire shops. In most cities now, there is a mobile service or two that is mobile and comes to your house. Easily findable thru the car guys, car clubs, Avants, etc. I think of it as a pit crew in my own driveway. It's more expensive, but they are absolutely damage free and promise damage free service, car guys, and there is zero issue. They do all my tires. Wheels. Land Rovers, Porsches (vintage and newer), vintage Mercedes...

Here is Honey Bee Tire last week at our house in Portland (where the Land Rovers are kept) -- they swap tires on my fast cars, they swap winter/summer tires, they swap my offroad/onroad tires on a Defender. Might be worth a look. The people who start these businesses are generally the good techs from wherever, and they are car enthusiasts. I have another one I use in San Francisco as well, same type of service.

rk-d

I'd just go to place that can do things properly then.

Floating a $150k car with four jacks on an incline isn't the way.

Sajan

100% agree. Or take the wheels off and take it there, watch them mount/balance and bring it back. that's what i do with the 87 and started doing with the later cars.

Took the cayman in last year to do the back wheels and they jacked up the car on an incline. no chokes. nothing. luckily the car didn't roll.

"treated like royalty"......maybe the customer service interaction part, but quality and safety of work.....no better than a Kia.

rk-d

That's what I do with my 993.

GT3 with CLs is another story unfortunately.

IRunalot

I will say to be careful with the balancing if the hub of the wheel is deep as "nut" they use to secure the wheel to the machine will cause a nice circle in the paint of the wheel.

Tier1Terrier

I used a Tire Rack recommended mobile installer and they did a fantastic job. The name of the company was Tread Connection. The equipment carried in the installation van was the same of tire mounting and balancing equipment that is used at the local lambo dealer (Corgi) which is basically touchless to the actual wheel.

If you advance to about the 7:00 mark on this video, you'll see a demonstration of the equipment used by the mobile installer. In this video, he was just plugging a tire puncture, but I've had this same guy out to replace all the tires on my vehicle before too.

vanlieremead

Beautiful Targa. Hope he found all the blts scattered around.

IRunalot

I can second that, they were out at my building changing tires on a 488 a few weeks ago. I walked by as I was curious and the did have a very nice setup and were very careful.

IXLR8

I never take any of my cars in for a tire change, and just bring the wheels in.

And prior to all that, I first check if they have a brand name aka $$$ contact-less tire changing machine and if they let me into the shop (they do).

On my motorcycles, I change my own tires and balance them.

IXLR8

Exactly what my tire dealer had.