Someone put up a list of 20-25€ tire change places in Espoo a couple of years ago.
And of now I don't find it. Anyone know of some good places - eastern Espoo preferable?
Tire Change
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Re: Tire Change
Basically, you can stop by any big gas station which offers Pikahoulto (Quick Service), they're able to change tyres. I've just noticed yesterday that Teboil station in Niittykumpu has it. Or you can visit car wash (not all car wash automat, but 100% of hand wash place), they do tyre swap. There are a lot of car wash places here in Eastern Espoo, personally I visited Fikos in Sello few days ago for both washing & tyre change.
Price range 30-35€.
However, If you have time and kind of into DIY thing, I highly recommend to do it yourself. With little proper knowledge and attention, the whole process is piece of cake and you save a lot. Yet, when do it yourself, you can avoid over-torqued lug nut by some careless mechanics.
Price range 30-35€.
However, If you have time and kind of into DIY thing, I highly recommend to do it yourself. With little proper knowledge and attention, the whole process is piece of cake and you save a lot. Yet, when do it yourself, you can avoid over-torqued lug nut by some careless mechanics.
Re: Tire Change
Was into the DIY thing for years but the jacks that come with cars these days are such toys that I don't dare. Had 2 bad occurrences 3 and 4 years ago. Those 'toys' come close to requiring a perfectly smooth billiard table - and somehow the compacts I have had, have a larger wheel base in proportion to the physics of the jacks - so the car has to be quite high for proper clearance. A very uncomfortable situation.
Re: Tire Change
A proper hydraulic jack would be around 30 eur at Biltema. A small investment but very handy
What do you want from me?????
Re: Tire Change
I can still remeber the 'good old days' when there were proper 'bumpers' and real jacks - one could lift front or back end of car along a highway - and manage to actually lift a car fairly safely - and also have some room on traffic side to change a tire without being clipped.
It's unimaginable how one could use one of those 'toy jacks' in a real-life situation - parallel to the car on the traffic side - or on the other where there is surely no flat, solid ground.
And even lugging (pun intended) around a hydraulic would not really work from front or back.
A consolation is that tires are not as big a problem anymore - but i still see enough sad souls stuck along the road.
Bring back real bumpers! and real jacks!
It's unimaginable how one could use one of those 'toy jacks' in a real-life situation - parallel to the car on the traffic side - or on the other where there is surely no flat, solid ground.
And even lugging (pun intended) around a hydraulic would not really work from front or back.
A consolation is that tires are not as big a problem anymore - but i still see enough sad souls stuck along the road.
Bring back real bumpers! and real jacks!