feel soaked by tire shop

I helped the guy putting it on,I provided a good tube, so he did not have to patch the old one.It took 1 hr start to finnish.
This morning the bill was in the mail, $658,16.

$273,- over quote. 458 bucks for 1 hr work and 1 hr travel.After asking about the diff in quote the fellow said , i did not give you that low a quote.

Now what

I also have one dealer who I deal with occassionally who will quote me one price on tires, and then bill me another price... However, if I call him and point that fact out, he backs down... but if you don't watch the bugger, he'll take the money. I don't know if it's a haphazard way he has, or if it's a deliberate act to get a little more. He is somewhat absent minded... He's the sort that if I ask for a price quote on something, he takes a percentage off of list, but otherwise if I just orde without pricing, I get list price.... and I think when he bills the tires out that he's quoted me on, he bills the list price. For the most part now I deal with another shop because they give me better prices without having to ask and chase around afterwards...

Rod

I watched him carefully, the last time he put a new tire on for me, just a 13.6 x28 loaded. I know I can do it now, but I paid for that knowledge then, as it was important for me to be able to deal with a tire problem, have been on my own 4 years now, no big job and salary anymore, so I will make an effort to save money where ever I can.

What burns me is when another outfit did the other tire, left the valve leaking externally, said it will stop, I was working away, time flies, now I have to deal with it, brand new rim, tire and tube, loaded, I'll bet the rim is shot, might have been better to call the man, but that cost is significant, I will get the tire drained, off that rim, do the repair and whatever necessary, totally my fault for letting it go, they closed their shop around here, so I deal with the other guy, if need be. Really irks me when the job was not done right and I bought all new parts. But I will deal with it and pump that fluid back in with a drill pump and tire filling valve to avoid paying double for that tire, have no choice now, can re-use the fluid, top off if need be, new tube, clean rim or find another, won't have to pay the labor at least, if I did that would be a $1000.00 tire, that cost $185-$200 or so.

I'm not doing anything time sensitive with the tractor, but if I were, I'd have a spare ready to mount, take the bad one to them or deal with it myself when time permits

You either have someone locally who is reasonable or you got the outfits that have to charge a premium to cater to this niche market. The change in the quote on the phone is disturbing, on principle, but the bill is in the ball park, last time it cost me well over $500 for a new 13.6 x 28 tire, tube, and calcium, installed here by the tire guy, took him about 1 hour.

Likely you can get a new tire, installed for that money.

Around here, farm call is 75$

I hada farm call to change a 16.9-24, with new tube.. was less than 500$ with a new tire.. etc.. and tat was a turf.. not an ag tire..

He's trying to soak you..

Soundguy

"A good 18.4 x38 for $200"? Where? I'd like a few of them. $200 18.4 X 38 would just barely hold air and be about 25% tread MAYBE. A GOOD 18.4 X 38 will bag $300 to $400, maybe more. Guess it all depends on what you consider "good".

A new tube is $45 or $50 MINIMUM nowdays.

Pumping fluid in/out would take hour to hour-1/2 ste-up to clean up.

Under the best of conditions, I wouldn't wrestle a tire off the rim and replace for under $100.

Is it worth $600+? Maybe not. Does that sort of service cost that much nowdays? Most times yes. Can you find some fly-by-night tire guy who'll do it for less? maybe, maybe not.

Solution? Buy a fluid pimp, tire irons, tire hammer, keep a spare tube on hand, buy any cheap used tires you run on to, and learn to do it yourself (which sucks by the way)

You had to have misunderstood his quote or something. $200 for a "good used" 18.4 X 38?

I doubt it.

That tire alone would have cost something like $500-600 in this area. Then you say 80 miles travel with that service truck and 1 hour's labor?

Comon' now, his bill sounds right on to me.

Allan

I could have done it myself no pain, but i would have to go to town to get the tire, take the wheel of the tractor, take it home and change tire, lug it back to the field,put it back on.
i felt for $ 185 it was cheaper to have it done.
but not for 458 bucks,that,s to much.

that is my story and i am sticking to it.

One new front tire & tube for larger tractor.

Two new rear tubes on a smaller farm tractor.

All 3 had fluid. One of the rears he had to take off & do over, tube leaked. Actually the first truck fluid pump didn't work, so had both tire trucks on the place that day, one for 3 hours.

Got a small implement tire & tube as well, not installed.

Don't remember, but I think the rubber was priced a lot more than the labor.

--->Paul

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