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Job Description
Repair and replace tires.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 49-3093.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 27,150.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 13.00
- Currently, there are 109,350 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Tire Repairers and Changers”.
Also Known As…
- Tire Repairers and Changers
- Tire Technician
- Tire Shop Mechanic
- Tire Repairer
- Tire Installer
- Tire Changer
- Tire Center Supervisor
- Tire Buster
- Service Technician
- Lube Technician
- Alignment Technician
- Tire Worker
- Tire Servicer
- Tire Mounter
- Tire Mechanic
- Tire Man
- Tire Groover
- Tire Fixer
- Automotive Tire Worker (Auto Tire Worker)
Tasks for “Tire Balancer”
- Reassemble tires onto wheels.
- Remount wheels onto vehicles.
- Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.
- Assist mechanics and perform various mechanical duties, such as changing oil or checking and replacing batteries.
- Clean and tidy up the shop.
- Clean sides of whitewall tires.
- Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes or tears.
- Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement.
- Drive automobile or service trucks to industrial sites to provide services or respond to emergency calls.
- Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.
- Separate tubed tires from wheels, using rubber mallets and metal bars or mechanical tire changers.
- Roll new rubber treads, known as camelbacks, over tire casings and mold the semi-raw rubber treads onto the buffed casings.
- Prepare rims and wheel drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding, or sandblasting.
- Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
- Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.
- Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
- Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.
- Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
- Place tire casings and tread rubber assemblies in tire molds for the vulcanization process and exert pressure to ensure good adhesion.
- Apply rubber cement to buffed tire casings prior to vulcanization process.
- Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.
- Patch tubes with adhesive rubber patches or seal rubber patches to tubes, using hot vulcanizing plates.
- Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers.
- Inflate inner tubes and immerse them in water to locate leaks.
- Order replacements for tires or tubes.
- Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
Related Technology & Tools
- Power grinders
- Thermocutters
- Hawk bill knives
- Stickleback rasps
- Air/steam bags
- Rubber patch guns
- Power tire spreaders
- Handheld extruders
- Hammers
- Inner-liner scrapers
- Heavy duty awls
- Duck-billed bead-breaking wedges
- Pneumatic wrenches
- Bead breakers
- Cutting blades
- Taper point knives
- Scrapers
- Tire plug guns
- Hydraulic jacks
- Razor knives
- Bead expanders
- Heavy duty T-handle spiral probe cement tools
- Hand rasps
- Insulated heater knives
- Mold presses
- Tire tread depth gauges
- Mechanical tire changers
- Hot vulcanizing plates
- Bail cutting knives
- Scissors
- Airless spray guns
- Mill knives
- Tire knockers
- Regroovers
- Deburring tools
- Shears
- Desktop computers
- Workshop cranes
- Rim clamp tire changers
- Balancing machines
- Utility knives
- Fast-trim vent knives
- Respirators
- Air drills
- Tire probing awls
- 4-way tire valve tools
- Personal computers
- Tire reamers
- Square point knives
- Curved-point scalpel knives
- Awls
- Wire brushes
- Insertion tools
- Buffers
- Computerized tire/wheel balancing equipment
- Electric knife heaters
- Hand rollers for adhesives
- Safety gloves
- Trimmer shears
- Notched-blade trim knives
- Vulcanizing machines
- Hydraulic pumps
- Holding clamps
- Tire irons
- Truck tire spoons
- Safety shoes
- Hub-cap pullers
- Jacks
- Eye protection
- Heavy duty T-handle reamers
- Pricking awls
- Lug wrenches
- Tire stands
- Power hoists
- Bead seaters
- Mallets
- Tire hammers
- Truck lock ring removers
- Torque wrenches
- Air spray guns
- Accounting software
- Recordkeeping software
- Microsoft Excel
- Project estimation software