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Where can I get tires mounted in Oklahoma City or Tulsa

okckeith

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I recently bought a 2013 Spyder Limited. It has the original tires on it. Only 3004 miles on it when I bought it. I'm going to buy a set of Kumho tires front and rear. I'm not sure who I can get to mount and balance them. I lived in Oklahoma City. But I'm in Broken Arrow also.
Thank for any help!
 
Welcome to the Forum okc?? Good to see you out here and posting. :2thumbs:

I've gotta say tho, this is in the 'Riding Clubs listed by State & Country' sub-forum (for now :p ), so really your thread & question should be asked in the appropriate Model's Shop Talk Section/sub-forum instead of in here (good title tho! ;) ) and I would move it for you, but I need to know which Model Spyder you've got the Limited Edition of?? An RT or an ST?? :dontknow:

Not that the Model really makes all that much difference to changing the tires, cos from 2013 & on, the rims & tires are all the same size right across the Spyder range and they all come off/go on pretty much the same way. ;) And they are AUTO Tires, on Auto Rims, so if you can get them off the Spyder and put them back on, then any good Tire place worth its salt should be able to do the tire strip & refit for you, even if they might need to get a 'less commonly used' spindle/collar in order to balance them on their usual equipment. The front's really shouldn't be all that hard at all for just about anyone to do, but the rear with its 2-piece hub & integrated brake disc; the Cush-Mounted Drive Sprocket; and the pretty small diameter axle/hub may be a bit more problematic if they don't have the right sized gear to hold it on their balancer. And you will want to check & replace if necessary the rear wheel bearings too, which are integrated into the rim/hub assembly. :rolleyes:

Over to you. Good Luck! :cheers:
 
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Sorry about posting in the wrong place. It is a RT Limited. I have watched a video or two about the rear tire change. I can do that no problem. I change my own motorcycle tire with a Nomar tire changer. But the Spyder is new to me. I bought this for my girlfriend. It came with a Can-Am trailer. It only had 200 miles on it. Got to replace the tires on it also.
 
No biggie about getting it wrong this early in your posting career, it's an easy fix that'll be done in just a moment! :thumbup:

The rear tire is the 'harder' one of a Spyder's three to get on & off, and because of the 2-part hub & integrated disc etc, it's probably the hardest to do anything else in the tire strip & refit process to as well :rolleyes: But hey, I can tell you for sure that it's waaaaayyyy easier to do this than it is to try swapping the inside wheel in the gutter side of the middle bogie of the middle trailer on a fully loaded road train in the blazing sun/50°C+ heat on an Outback track hundreds of miles from anywhere; or worse, trying to do the same thing when it's bucketing down rain & the track's been turned into a raging river deeper'n the axles; and those bleedin' wheels weigh in a HELLUVA lot more'n the Spyder wheels do too!!:banghead:

So if you can still spin a spanner and are confident you can get down onto the floor & back up again without putting yourself into hospital for a week or more, destroying your newly replaced knees/hips/ankles or whatever in the process, then it's really not too hard to take the Spyder wheel off & put it back on. :ohyea:

Just a quick thoughty tho, do tape the belt adjusters into place in the ends of the swing arms BEFORE you do anything else, cos once you loosen &/or pull the axle tube, those bloody adjusters will try their damnedest to jump out of the swing arms; self-adjust to mess up the belt alignment &/or tension; hide so that you hafta spend 20+ minutes crawling around looking for the slippery little suckers; and basically make the rear wheel re-installation a right pain! :rolleyes:

Good Luck! :cheers:
 
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