General Discussion

Getting ready to put a new set of tires on my 2023 BMW K1600GTL.

After calling the dealer in the Woodlands, I was rather shocked at their tire mounting pricing method.

$100 each to mount and balance tires, if I carry the rims in removed from the motorcycle.

$120 each if I ride it in and they remove the rims to do the work.

The first price seems absolutely outrageous

$30 is the most I've ever paid when I carry the rims in myself.

$20 extra and they remove from the motorcycle seems crazy considering the $100 fee.

What is it I'm missing here?

I'm thinking, I'll do them myself here at the shop at that rate.

It's just a motorcycle wheel, it's not like it's rocket science because it's a bmw.

Anyone know if that's the same pricing at the dealer in the west side? I honestly would rather not do them myself. I can spend that hour doing much more productive things.

Brian A.

I pay $30/tire at Motorcycle Unlimited (45 and 1960).

But Patrick and his Team will not mount tires bought somewhere else than their shop (guarantee and traceability of the tire is needed for insurance of the shop).

Their prices are decent as far as I can gauge. I'm OK to pay $20 more for a tire and have it mounted by someone I trust than running into situation like you have Brian...

I once had my new tires mounted by an auto tire shop at the corner because it was 150 yards from my house (and then balanced them myself). They bent a rim which I didn't notice at the time and in any case couldn't have proved it wasn't already there. Eventually it cost me $150 to get that straightened. Sometimes cheaper is not.

It's not about cheaper. I'm very capable of mounting them. Over a decade of commercial tire experience, and I mount tires on high end exotic cars regularly. On wheels that cost $3k and up

It was more about the crazy difference between carrying the wheels in, or riding the bike in to the dealer.

I would rather these days not mess with it.

Brian A

The insurance thing is a cop out honestly.

What they are really saying, we didn't get the tire markup so we don't want to mount your tires.

I'm not sure what you mean by pay the extra $20 to avoid the experience I have had.....?

$100 to mount off the bike is crazy imo.

And extra twenty, and they remove and reinstall wheels on bike ......

It seems their pricing is backwards in my way of thinking.

And they will mount my tires i provide. Even told me I can just ship my tires right to the store , they don't carry the ones I want on the k1600, same ones I have now with over 8k on them and honestly are probably good for this 3k ish trip. But would definitely be near end of life. I rather just put new and lose the last 3k mileage