I'm coming to Austin for a COTA event in Feb and looking for a tire shop (preferably tire-rack certified) that can do a tire change for a GT3 RS.
So far several of the shops I've called won't touch the center-lock wheels.

Any recommendations in the Houston or Austin areas?

The Porsche dealership in Austin wants to charge 40%+ more for the tires than TireRack.

 

Porsche west in Houston takes care of this for me. I send the tires direct from tire rack. Check with Cody Zobak. Reasonable price for mounting. Not sure if they do it for "non regulars"...

 

Thanks, unfortunately one added wrinkle is that I need the install done on a Saturday, and it looks like Porsche West Houston service is closed on weekends.

 

True, closed on Saturdays... (I checked with them today and it was ok to mount you tires...). Cant' you schedule a one day drop in Houston? It shouldn' take more than a few hours...

 

Unfortunately I'm just passing through. However I found Jeff at Momentum Porsche was able to help. He couldn't accept the shipment, but his price was comparable to TireRack anyway.
Thanks for the suggestion.

 

Good to know for future reference. What tires are you getting installed?

 

Just some MPSCs. I may switch to Trofeos in the summer when it warms up.

 

I'm in Austin. You're welcomed to have tires shipped to my house and then take them to Beasley.

 

Firestone Auto Care on Washington Ave in Houston
TireRack installer and does all my work changing out Hoosier R6's on my track wheels
Ask for Sal on installations on CL's

 

Thanks guys, I'm all set with Momentum Porsche.

 

Just for future reference, Soulspeed Performance is located at Harris Hill Road (the track ) in San Marcos (south of Austin). They do all my performance tire mounting and alignment work, plus they can also do suspension work, etc. Very familiar with Porsche and have the right tools. They are also a Tire Rack recommended installer and can have tires drop shipped there. Best of all, you can usually arrange to take a couple of laps on the track to verify that all is well.

My car will be there tomorrow morning, in fact.

 

Good to know! I'm a member at H2R and Colin is a cool dude (and fierce chump car competitor). I didn't know he did tires

 

Yeah, that's what those two machines over in the corner are for.

If you have him order them for you, he might be able to save you a few bucks that way, too.