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Old 03-21-2018, 11:51 AM
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May have seen this before, but videos were buried in the posts, so here are a couple showing the Hunter machine mounting a Z06 tire. The hardest part seems to always be how to get the bead to seat once the tire is in place...takes a special technique, not just a blast of air pressure.

Also, so automated that a 10 year old can do it on a more standard tire.



Makes me not want to let any shop touch my Stingray wheels unless they have at least this quality of machine, nothing less.
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I went to the Hunter Engineering website and learned they have quite an array of tire changing equipment. Additionally I learned from a local shop that all Hunter wheel changers cannot handle large custom type wheels. Their Revolution model is the grand daddy state-of-the-art machines to use. To find out who in your area has this machine just drop Hunter Engineering an email and they will give you a list of vendors. This is the only machine I use on my custom wheels.
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Thanks for posting, Now try finding one in the wild How much is that little gem costing...
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My dealership (Huffines Chevrolet in Lewisville, TX) just got this machine (or one very similar), and it was quite impressive to watch in action.

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Only 39 thousand dollars
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Old 03-21-2018, 04:39 PM
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Very slick...thanx for the video.
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Thanks for posting. This helps justify the cost of mounting large runflat tires.

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