Tire mouting problems

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

I had a similar problem back in June the night before traveling to Cincy 
2005. I took my 16" Kossei Racing Seneka's to Tires Plus who I had called to 
find out if they could handle the low profile tires 205/40R40 Kumho SPT's. A 
kid there tried mounting them normally and ended up breaking the special 
through the wheel metal valve stems (which is a whole other story). The 
supervisor finally realized that the wheels need to be mounted upside down 
to work on the machine correctly.
 While getting ready for the show at Treffen I was cleanning wheels only to 
find two of them were damaged by their machine. One had 4 sets of jaw clamp 
marks on it and the other one had a big gouge in it. Both were way on the 
back side that can't easily seen when mounted. To top it all off these 
wheels are no longer available.

 On 9/3/05, Jim Ruffi <sciroccos@earthlink.net> wrote: 
> 
> I went to my friend's shop to mount my new tires on my new wheels the 
> other
> day. He has a 20 year old Snap-On wheel machine. Not state-of-the-art, but
> it has proven itself through hundreds of mountings and dismountings. We
> couldn't get the tires on the rims....it was as though they were too 
> tight.
> 
> So, I grabbed up the stuff and headed to the tire department of the local
> wholesale club. They are always nice there and do lots of low-profile 
> tires
> on big rims, plus their equipment is new. The guy was perplexed. He
> couldn't get the tire to reach around the rim. It's as though the rim was 
> a
> 15 1/2 and the tire was a 15"
> 
> Here's what I think. The rims (ATS) cups have a very deep outer lip. When
> you work the second half of a tire onto the rim, it's necessary to get the
> tire to slip into the narrower (diameter) part of the rim, just inside the
> are where the bead makes contact. Only these rims have such a wide lip,
> that it's nearly impossible to push the tire into the narrow area. It 
> would
> make more sense to put the wheels face-down in the tire machine and 
> stretch
> the back of the tire last....but I'm worried about the tire machine 
> messing
> up the paint on the wheels.
> 
> Tires are EV100, 195/50-15
> 
> Make sense???
> Thanks.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at 
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (under repair)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)