Is $25 a fare price to patch an inner tube?

I'm too old and too weak to patch the inner tube on a terramite rear tire.
I can't even lift the tire into the truck, too heavy.
I had to roll it up the 8 ft mower ramps to get it into the truck.
Had to drive 25 miles to Sullivan tire store in Sullivan Indiana. I'm happy to pay someone to patch my tire..

The owner of Sullivan tire sold me he has magnetic air that attracts nails and screws. His air hose has a magnet attached to it... I plan

to replace the air..

A flat repair is about 25$ here

I assume you mean to break down the tire, remove the tube, find the leak, patch the tube, find the offending nail or whatever, remove it, reinstall the tube, install the tire on the wheel and air it up. If so, yes 2 bucks is fair IMO.

If it was really just patch a tube, not so much.

I assume you mean to break down the tire, remove the tube, find the leak, patch the tube, find the offending nail or whatever, remove it, reinstall the tube, install the tire on the wheel and air it up.
Yes the entire job.
I can easily patch a tube...

10.0016.5 skidsteer tire repair on Monday was $55.00 New tube was 37.00 for new tube 18 to install tire on rim. Was at a job site if at home would have did it myself and would not of tore tube at valve stem. It had a nail in tire but on disassembly valve stem was tore

Sounds cheap to me!

Every bit of an hour if you hustle!

Welcome to whatever year this is. EVERYTHING is going up costwise, most of which has no basis for doing so, like gas prices, food etc. other than corporate and wall street greed. The thing in Ukraine can't really have an instant effect with out it.

Bob
$25 has been a flat fee for tire repair many years before the Ukraine invasion.
$25 to repair lawn mower front tire..

I would consider that a fair price for all the work they have to do

Last week I paid $22 including tax to remove an old tubeless car tire, mount and balance a tire I carried in, and dispose of the old tire. This was at Discount Tire. I was happy with that.

I bought new tires for my 4 wheeler. Had the local tire shop dismount and mount the tires that I brought to him and new valve stems. I took the old tires. I hot out the door for $50

Almost exactly two years ago I was cleaning up after a fire and ran over a nail with my bobcat.That one had a tube,so I popped apart and patched it.The other front tire always had a bead leak,so I figured I would throw a tube in that one at the same time.I went to a tire shop 3 miles away where I used to work,he said there is a tube at the warehouse,go get your wheel and $58.We'll throw it on.I was expecting to pay close to that for the tube and mount it myself.I ran back and got my tire before he changed his mind.In the mid 70's I worked in that store and we got $3.50 to change 10:00X 20's.When I was 19 I could change 4 in one hour.

Tractor rear Ford 860 repair $40 here in in southwest Mo.

Local shop charged $20 a piece to mount two new tires tubes on new wheels for the front of my son's 2N. I thought it was kind of high usually $10. But its done and I didn't want to drive the 15 miles the other way.

Local tire shop is $15. It's $20 I think if they take it off, and put it on. Not just rolled in the door to em. And thats not fa factoring in it being a tubed tire. So, .... I guess it's on the ball park.

The one guy at my tire shop, is not good with tubes. I don't know why. I think he does sloppy work that's not adequate with a tube. Either that, or he's not careful enough (misses things in the carcass, or burs/rust on the rim). Anyways, I might have problems, if he is the one that fixes it. And that's a pain in the but, to put a tire back on that's not fixed.

Long gone are the days if inexpensive tire repair . I remember the good old places to get semi tires repaired . And outside dual was four bucks and and inside on bud wheels was 7.50 . wild Bill the tire jockey at N. Lima gas town who worked out of a shack in the back can't remember the guy at the Old T/A at Stony Ridge 's name one at Gary east truck plaza one off U S 30 in Ind. about half way across the state they did not care if it was a truck / car / farm tractor or a piece of construction equipment > And back in them times we had tire problems . Myself i use to haul stainless steel scrap out of Chicago to Pittsburgh . I would check every inch of all the tires Before i pulled out and removed anything i found , BUT sometimes i would miss one tiny piece and by the time i got to the old T 5 exit on the Buckeye green stamp i had one going down and pull off and have it fixed . around home now i deal with one person on all tires and have now for 40 years , With Jimmy i take a tire down to him 98% of the time when i go to settle up i get Get out of here . When i need new tires he has the lowest prices anywhere around . when i was looking for some 16.9 x38' Firestones when everybody was looking and none could be found i called Jimmy and i get GIVE ME A COUPLE DAYS and sure enough in two days he calls and said i got them here and your cost is 275 each with new tubes , others were paying over 600 each . Yep i installed them but this is not a big deal as i have installed changed many tractor tires . Yep he is out in the boondoc's and a 30-40 min drive for me i will make that drive . Went down there one Saturday with the Durango and both of my daughters cars for four tires on each . My one oldest daughter worked for a Huge car dealer in Cleveland and got prices up there and at at Jimmy's she got better tires for a forth of what they would have cost for the next line down . same with my youngest and same on the Durango as that one has odd sized tires and even at Sam's Club they would cost almost a grand for four Jimmy's price for four BETTER tires was a shade over 400 . His place is always swamped with people that do not have a lot of money but are in need of tires . Here in town a flat repair is 25 to 30 bucks even at wall mart and 90% of the time they will not patch a tire and tell you you have to BUY a new tire .
Everybody wants to get rich over night and plum flat out gouge ya .

At my shop we are $25 for tire repair on carry ins, $30 if we remove the wheel from the vehicle or equipment.

No, it should be free. After all the tire patch doesn't cost hardly anything and the job is so easy because he has all those fancy machines to do the hard work for him.

It should be free because that would make the customer HAPPY, and a HAPPY customer will come back to do more business with the tire shop later on.

If you haven't detected my sarcasm yet, let me help you out here. I'm being sarcastic. To point out this prevalent entitled attitude that shops charge money for the services they perform for the sole express purpose of shafting the customer.

The reality is that $25 is barely enough to keep the lights on. It puts no food on the owner's table. It doesn't pay for medical insurance, clothing, or any essentials for the owner or his family.

Thanks for understanding this, Barnyard.
Even at 25-30 dollars, tire repairs are
still a customer convenience service. I
hate tire repairs, but do it as a service
to my customers, but I have to get
something. A tire repair at a flat fee
takes my guys off a much more lucrative
$85/hour repair. And that 25-30 charge
holds if my guy spends time patching the
big hole, to put the tire on and find the
small hole and start all over.

I had to patch a 5.50x16 R2 tube yesterday. I made a breaker and have a modified (for small tires) HF tire changer did the rest. In the process $20 came to mind for the next time I have to do that even if it costs that plus a trip 7 miles to town. On a 14.5x24 R1 I'd say that $50 would probably be the going rate, or if you want them to come to you I'd expect $125 or so changing it on the tractor at your farm.

I don't think that 25 dollars would cover it around here even if you took it to the tire shop.

I can still get 20 inch tires changed (winter to summer or the other way around) for $20 each which includes balancing. As long as I pay cash.

Cheap at twice the price around here .

At $100 an hour shop time they worked pretty hard to do it in 15 minutes plus parts and supplies.