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So anyways....thought i had a slow leak, turned out it was a crack in my rim.

Getting the rim fixed, but noticed that the camber wear on my tyre is so much that it it's now not exactly legal. Now given that my rim repair is going to be around $130, and I'm broke, i just need the tyre put back on for the next two weeks til i get paid and can think about replacing the tyre (which has about 11mm of tread everywhere except the inside 15mm of the tyre).

So does anyone know of a smaller tyre place close to the city that would just put the tyre back on for me? Or do you think a normal tyre place would put it back on for me if i said i was just taking it to the track or something?

dodgey i know, but i really can't afford new tyres at the moment!!

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You could try taking the wheel and tyre in separately and asking them to fit it, I dunno whether they'd make you sign a disclaimer or something but they might do it. I've had tyres fitted before that were going to the track on the back of a drift car, I think they just noted on the invoice that the tyres were not legal for street use or something like that. You'll still have an illegal/defectable tyre and a cracked rim though, so it's not ideal, and certainly not something I'd do myself.

A better option would be to try to find someone who will loan you a rim/tyre or a pair/set (especially if the sizes are different) that's legal - that way you'll have some grip, and won't have insurance hassles should you run into someone or crash. What size do you have?

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Use a tyre lever and squeeze it back on. Theyre just like a bike tyre but tougher

Use a peice of timber to brace against so u dont destroy your rim

Or just buy a 30$ retread or even chuck your spare on

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hmm, well, i'm getting the crack in the rim repaired, so that should be an issue - but like i said, that's gonna cost around $130 i'm guessing, and at the moment (not for another 2 weeks at least), i don't have spare cash for tyres.

yeah i should have rotated the tyres at some stage - didn't realise i had that much camber on the front though :blink: and i can only rotate the fronts as i've got 8.5"s on the front and 9.5"s on the rear.

I think i'll just take the other rim off the front - put the two stockers on the front - go to the tyre shop (when i get my cracked rim fixed) and ask them to rotate the two as they are spares or for the track or something - that way they won't be fitting them to the car and they can write whatever they want on the invoice.

THEN.... i'll go buy some cheap 2nd hand tyres or something like the cheapskate that i am :D

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oh and size... i'll have to get back to you, i don't even know off hand :blink:

i bought my rims with the stretched rubber already on them and I'm not really partial to it - get way to much understeer at times (which is probably largely due to my completely stock (i.e. f*cken sloppy) suspension.

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So you got stock rims with legal tyres on them?

Don't mean to sound stupid, but why not just leave them on the car for 2 weeks. In that 2 weeks you could get a defect, crash the car and have void insurance, etc etc.

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So you got stock rims with legal tyres on them?

Don't mean to sound stupid, but why not just leave them on the car for 2 weeks. In that 2 weeks you could get a defect, crash the car and have void insurance, etc etc.

ummm, i think that's what i meant when i said "think i'll just take the other rim off the front - put the two stockers on the front"...

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^^ um, i'm not sure how you figure that. i started the thread as a couple of tyre places i went to didn't want to fit non-legal rubber to a rim while it's not on the car, so i was asking for any knowledge of places that would - for example if they didn't mind fitting non-legal rubber if it was for drfit/track. but your input has been super-valuable thus far :)

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