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Old 04-24-2017, 09:41 PM
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Default Where do you get your tires installed?

Short story short...
Nobody near me will change out the tires on my wheels except the Porsche dealership that is about an hour away. 315/25/19. When they hear the 25 they cringe and say sorry but they can't do it.

So who do you use other than the dealer?

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Tirerack. I live about 15 min from them.
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any mavis tire should do it for you...
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Originally Posted by kmagnuss
Short story short...
Nobody near me will change out the tires on my wheels except the Porsche dealership that is about an hour away. 315/25/19. When they hear the 25 they cringe and say sorry but they can't do it.

So who do you use other than the dealer?

Thanks.

-Mag
Do you have a wheel shop near you? Try them if you do! U try Sarasota?
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Nah no wheel shops near me. Closest is sarasota... where the dealership is. An hour away.
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go to tirerack.com and look up preferred installer by zip if you haven't tried that...
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Thanks gee. I did that and found a local place! Appreciate it.
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I have bmw/merc dealer much closer than Porsche that will do them, they have experience with low pro's
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I use a local tire place. But I have stock size tires.
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Local Discount Tire here is great, just get the right person mounting stuff.
315/30 is not a size anyone jumps to do...
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Originally Posted by 911mhawk
...just get the right person mounting stuff.
One of their guys put some marks on one of my wheels. Fortunately it was the one that had already been refinished. They had it fixed pronto at their expense, of course. I use Discount almost all the time with great results. They were very courteous about the repair. Out of many wheels, this is the only one they ever marked.
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I use a custom wheel shop, they repair, and sell high end wheels! Never marked my three piece wheels!
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Suncoast Porsche took care of me today. Those guys are awesome.
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If you're in the Los Angeles area give us a call....

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Tire Discounters in the midwest. They know me in there (locally) now because I have both of my GTIs tires swapped each year plus the Porsche loose wheels. They have only messed up once and it was their machine that ate the inside bead out of my brand new Bridgestone RE71Rs. That actually prompted them to change the head on the unit and they said they have not had anymore issues. Never have any balance problems at all. I had the Porsche dealer price mounting and balancing and they wanted $65 PER WHEEL HAHA! But I do have my alignment done each year at that same Porsche dealer, and their price is reasonable. I guess they just dont like mounting and balancing tires.


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