Wheels & Tires Semi-Tech General discussion of wheels and tires for the Ford Ranger.

Christmas in July

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Christmas in July

This is what was waiting for me after work today, it was just so...beautiful. *single tear*





 
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Purdy. Now mount 'em.
 
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sexy mount them now!
 
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Stay up all night and put all the goodies on so in the morning you can post pics
 
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those are sexy man.. now hurry up and get some pics up on this thang!
 
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Stay up all night and put all the goodies on so in the morning you can post pics
heh, that'd be nice if I had a mounting and balancing machine in my garage.

The only place around here that would even touch the Mickey Thompsons doesn't have an opening until Monday. And they want to charge me 32 bucks a tire. bastards.

I'm going to call a couple more places tomorrow.

Midas, Sears, BJ's, Walmart...all said No.
 
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Looks sweet cant wait to see them on the truck.
 
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Sweeeeeet! They look good Man! Hurry up and get them on!
 
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Why did those places say no. Whats the deal with the MT?
 
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Very nice man, you can mount them yourself probably and just get them mounted. The sidewalls are plyable enough.
 
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Yeah, just push the tire onto the rim with one of those little plastic bike tire things and use an air compressor to start the bead. You'll just have to take them to get them balanced.
 
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their is no discount tire or any actual tire only shops around? surly there are.

looks hot tho, get um mounted and some pics!
 
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x 100 on get them mounted already. there sexy.
 
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yes yes get them mounted. we all wanna see...NOW
 
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Yea thats who is charging me the 32 bucks. The local tire shop. I'm gonna call around to other places more further away for better prices.

All the chains won't touch the MT's cause they say they have older machines and are afraid of scratching "high end" rims.

I have like zero experience with mounting...wouldn't know where to start. At this point I'm gonna get it done for me. Perhaps in the future I'll learn how.
 
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very nice! what size are the tires?
 
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I HAD TOO.......mounted pics please.....
 
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Wow NTB is mounting tires on my brand new 18" chrome cobras tomorrow and they said it wouldnt be a problem, i dunno why they would have a problem working with a M/T brand rim.
 
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Sweet arent you lucky.
 
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I HAD TOO.......mounted pics please.....
lol, but I have pics!! Mounted pics will be another thread
 
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very nice! what size are the tires?
32x11.5x15
 
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hey i noticed that you did the headlight mod on your clear corners.. it looks rad dude! was it tough?? i was thinkin about doing the headlight mod and the corners look awesome so maybe i'll do them too.

hurry up and get your tires mounted man! we all wanna see some pics soon!
 
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Originally Posted by buzzair
Yea thats who is charging me the 32 bucks. The local tire shop. I'm gonna call around to other places more further away for better prices.

All the chains won't touch the MT's cause they say they have older machines and are afraid of scratching "high end" rims.

I have like zero experience with mounting...wouldn't know where to start. At this point I'm gonna get it done for me. Perhaps in the future I'll learn how.
Same here, no one would touch it because it is "out of the norm" for them.

I went to a buch of places and they all wouldn't do it.

That is very nice of them to say they didn't want to scratch your rims...most places just take your money.

What about people wiht 22's and up??? That must suck for them!!!
 
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hey i noticed that you did the headlight mod on your clear corners.. it looks rad dude! was it tough?? i was thinkin about doing the headlight mod and the corners look awesome so maybe i'll do them too.

hurry up and get your tires mounted man! we all wanna see some pics soon!
Here's my headlight mod

https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...ad.php?t=22158

The corners, I painted pretty much the same way, but to take them apart I used a pot of boiling water and submerged the corners with a hotdog tong until the glue was hot enough to pull apart. Wasn't that hard
 
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Originally Posted by jrpro130

That is very nice of them to say they didn't want to scratch your rims...most places just take your money.
I suppose I could look at it that way...better they said no than scratch up the rims
 

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