Stuff we're working on... Part VI

[LarryInSeattle]

I ran a Dunlop Run Flat Wintersport car tire on my 1500 Goldwing.

My 1800 has a brand new E3 that the previous owner put on it and when it wears out I will be putting a run flat on the 1800.

[CDNRatMan]

  Well you have some area you can store them till the price goes up once again......

[greenbarn]

That's where they're eventually headed for.. (not in North Bay, but more local  )  Scrap prices are really low right now, though.

[CDNRatMan]

 Do you have a recycle place you can take the aluminum and collect a few dollars? I got rid of my aluminum rims and went back to the black steel rims.......the tire place said they would take care of the rims but I said I was going to use them for another vehicle, but took them to the metal recycle place and got $125.00 for them......so good for me.....

[greenbarn]

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[greenbarn]

Run-Flat tires: Some of the Honda Odyssey vans have what they call run-flat tires.  Only Michelin makes replacement tires, and you have to have a Michelin tire machine to change them.  Well, the tires are about $250-300 each to have them replaced so it turns out that I can sell  new rims and really nice "regular" tires for about the same money.

What a mess...In order to dispose of the old tires, I had to cut them off of the wheels.  Cut around the rim with a knife, to get the bulk of the tire rubber off.  Then cut the tire bead with a cut-off wheel (sawzall wouldn't touch it).     Inside the tire, there is this hard plastic ring that the tires rides on when it goes flat - that's what allows them to be driven flat.  That too has to be cut and chiseled off.  But what's left is a real heavy aluminum wheel.