I am about to buy some ITPs and I have never done this on an ATV, thus I am wondering if many/some of you do it yourselves? Or are they a PITTA and take'em to your dealer?

If you do - can you please post some tips and any necessary tools requited/needed/suggested to do the job?

 

Its not that hard to change tires. All you would need is some tire irons, bead breaker and some liquid dish washing soap. The dish washing soap makes it easier to get the tires on the rims cuz it makes it slippery as hell. you can either buy a bead breaker or make one. my friend and I made ours. it was fairly easy for make on. You can check pics of mine HERE. But assuming you buy a bead breaker it shouldnt take more than 15 minutes a side.

 

Yeah, a bead breaker is pretty much a must-have. Tire irons are fine for motorcycle tires but we couldn't get them to work on ATV tires. I bought a bead breaker from JL ATV for $80, it's the one Hiper recommended and I definetely don't want to screw up these rims. You can't pop the bead loose all at once with a manual bead breaker, you have to work it off a little at a time as you move around the rim. Around my area, the dealers charge an arm and a leg to change tires. If it's like that where you live, spend the money (or build) a bead breaker so you only have to cry once.

 

Save yourself a lot of pain and anguish and take them to a shop and have them do it. Even with a manual bead breaker it's a pain in the a$$ and you are probably going to scratch up your rims. Some gas station shops will do ATV tires too. It's worth the $10 a tire to have someone else do it.

 

It is seriously not that difficult to do it manually. It doesnt take us more than 15 minutes a wheel to take the tire off and put a diff one on.

 

He's right, if you have a bead breaker you can do it in no time, but if you're not going to buy or make one and try to get the tire off with just pry bars and screwdrivers, you need to take them to a shop.

 

LAst time to do everythig it took me about 2 and half hours to do without a beadbreaker,i just used screw drivers and hammers....You could always get them mounted on new rims

 

I paid $5 a tire plus couple of bucks for a tip and I was done in less than 15minutes, but find a old gas station or old tire shop with the old style tire machines, most of the new ones don't really fit the small 8", 9" rims but the old machines work on anything and an old small time shop usually wont charge you an arm and a leg they just want to stay in business and you as a repeat customer, besides small local shops need the support, with so many big Corporate Companies taking most of the business............JMO.

 

If you haven't done it before, its a pain in the butt. I've had tires mounted on my bikes a few times, and every time, I take it down to some gas station and pay them $20 bucks. Takes about 10 minutes on one of those tire machines, and no headache involved. Definitely worth it to have somebody else do it, at least for me it was.