York - Tyre Removal & Disposal
Discussion
It's several year since they sorted tyres for my Saab, but could be worth a phone call.
https://www.merlininternational.co.uk/
They did have a bank of tyres in stock for customers I think, for summer/winter swaps so might be their sort of thing.
https://www.merlininternational.co.uk/
They did have a bank of tyres in stock for customers I think, for summer/winter swaps so might be their sort of thing.
The Garage at Layerthorpe will do it, although the last time I had some fitted (supplied by me) and the old ones disposed of, they weren't cheap - £30 per tyre. I'm sure they used to charge around £12 a tyre...
I invested in my own machines for this very reason, and being able to offer tyres to customers has been well worth it and they are paying for themselves, but it's become an issue finding someone to change tyres for you these days, then when you do you find the price is something in the region of what's been quoted £25-45 a tyre. But now being on the opposite side I get it, there's the buying of the machines which you want to pay back, there's the cost to run them from maintenance to electricity, the consumables of soap, bead sealer, valves and weights all of which are cheap but add up and then you want to actually make some money to pay yourself a wage.
wildoliver said:
I invested in my own machines for this very reason, and being able to offer tyres to customers has been well worth it and they are paying for themselves, but it's become an issue finding someone to change tyres for you these days, then when you do you find the price is something in the region of what's been quoted £25-45 a tyre. But now being on the opposite side I get it, there's the buying of the machines which you want to pay back, there's the cost to run them from maintenance to electricity, the consumables of soap, bead sealer, valves and weights all of which are cheap but add up and then you want to actually make some money to pay yourself a wage.
You just need to start doing wheel refurbs now too 
I'm not adverse to looking at it in a year or 2, I need to get away from big restos as you get older that sort of work does your body no favours, so looking at a few different income streams and for now while I will take the odd restoration job in, I'm being very selective and only want to do jobs that interest me, I've been focussing on smaller service type jobs mainly and am a lot happier being able to turn work around quicklyish. Small jobs, like 2 engine rebuilds at the moment 
But wheel refurbs are something that I might consider getting in to, there is a degree of set up cost which would probably be the discourager, but there's a gap in the market round here for decent not mega expensive refurbs.
Although the way that it's going it's getting harder and harder to run your own business and at ever step it feels like there's a hurdle so who knows what the future holds.
Anyway, this isn't helping the op!
But wheel refurbs are something that I might consider getting in to, there is a degree of set up cost which would probably be the discourager, but there's a gap in the market round here for decent not mega expensive refurbs.
Although the way that it's going it's getting harder and harder to run your own business and at ever step it feels like there's a hurdle so who knows what the future holds.
Anyway, this isn't helping the op!
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