I thought I could install them myself, but I was wrong.
I bought these fully aware of the difficulty others has installing them, but I’m much handier than most and thought I could manage it. Nope! Finally I broke down and bought a $30 special tool just for installing this type of wheelchair tire, placed it in the vice as recommended, and lubricated the tires and rims to make them easier to slip on. Still no way I could do it. I enlisted the help of another sturdy guy. Even the two of us working on it together couldn’t get these tires on the rims, though we did manage to rotate a very, very heavy workbench with the pressure we were applying. I even tried to soak them in hot water to see if that might help them stretch, but it did not. These tires simply do not stretch the way others I’ve seen in instructional videos do!<br /><br />Before buying the special tool I called a wheelchair place to ask if they could do it, and they said they only order new rims with new tires on them because installation is so hard.
Rating: 1 stars