nikko2jzge

I have some factory 5 spoke 17" GS400 wheels. I went to get my tires replaced at Discount Tire. They were able to install two tires on the wheel, but could not do the other two. They said it was difficult because of the design of the inside of the wheel. Has anyone encountered this before?

02Legend

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It took my mechanic no time to put tires on, stock 17". Hell, I just had him swap a tire off one wheel that was cracked and then put it on another in under 5 minutes. His equipment isn't the newest either.

zmw

uhhh, no - take them to a new tire shop.

DAYGOmyGS3

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check your tires, they may have damaged ur tire while installing them and possibly didn't want to proceed further and told you they couldn't, that happen to me once either that or your rim is damaged other than that they should be able t

DAYGOmyGS3

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check your tires, they may have damaged ur tire while installing them and possibly didn't want to proceed further and told you they couldn't, that happen to me once either that or your rim is damaged other than that they should be able to do it no problem since they did 2 already

L3XOTIC

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Im with him. maybe they possibly did damage and try to hide the lie. OR, your rim is damaged period.

98sleeper

Discount Tire warranty's their installation for the life of the tire. If there is rust on the inside of the rim (someone used fix-a-flat etc.) they may tell you this. Visually inspect your rim to see if it is out of round. They can install with no problems, they've done it on Thousands of Lexus vehicles before. If you have the Chrome 400 rims, they may not want to scratch/chip the chrome if it is messed up inside the lip of the rim. Check it out and if they are flaky you may want to take your baby to another shop. I have not had any problems with discount tire - they have woked on all my vehicles without any issues for years, and they always have done a great job for me but YMMV.

zmw

I want to partially take back my statement above - I just put new tires on my stockers just 4 days ago, and developed a WICKED shimmy, took it back to discount tire and they had to rebalance them - they stated that the lexus OEM wheels require a significant amount of lube to properly bead the tires and that caused the tires to spin on the wheel under acceleration or hard braking.

They rebalanced all 4 and the car rides great... the point is they confirmed what you heard, I didn't look at the wheel but it may have a weird step lip or something? Also the chrome on my wheels is flaking inside which they said leads to leaking eventually...

nikko2jzge

I'm at Merchants Tire now, and they are having the same problem. I hate to go to the dealer to get two tires put on.

lexo98

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Are they explaining to you what kind of problems they are having? Is the problem actually getting the tire mounted to the wheel, getting the beads to seat or do the tires not properly hold air. I've mounted hundreds of tires on stock GS wheels and dont remember having problems like that. Are the tires new?

YviE

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Never had a problem mounting tires on my GS400 wheels.

I did have another problem... I was constantly losing pressure on all wheels. Tires were fine. The wheels on the other hand were in bad shape, paint was damaged and bubbling everywhere. So I had them sandblasted and powdercoated. Now the problem is gone.

iRyan

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Thats very weird. I've never seen hat happen before. Inspect the rim to see if maybe theres a crack in it

SorrGwa

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for the stock 17s, there are these run channels right at the beed line (the one that tells u basically if the wheel is reverse mount or not). the stock wheels are regular, non reverse mount.

the funny thing is u kinda need the older style wheel mounter, not so much getting the tire on the wheel, but where it has air injectors at the bottom.

they can get around this with just a beed blaster, ones used for floppy truck tires, and if u plan on running stretched wheels.