National
| Median wages (2008) |
$10.80 hourly, $22,460 annual |
| Employment (2006) |
106,000 employees |
| Projected growth (2006-2016) |
Faster than average (14% to 20%)
|
| Projected need (2006-2016) |
42,000 additional employees |
49-3093.00 - Tire Repairers and Changers
Repair and replace tires.
Sample of reported job titles:
Tire Technician, Tire Changer, Tire Shop Mechanic, Tire Buster, Tire Repairer
Tasks
- Identify and inflate tires correctly for the size and ply.
- Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
- Raise vehicles using hydraulic jacks.
- Remount wheels onto vehicles.
- Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
- Unbolt wheels from vehicles and remove them, using lug wrenches and other hand and power tools.
- Reassemble tires onto wheels.
- Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
- Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
- Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.
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Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
| Awls — Heavy duty awls; Pricking awls; Tire probing awls |
| Insertion tools — Heavy duty T-handle spiral probe cement tools |
| Jacks — Hydraulic jacks |
| Pry bars — Bead seaters; Tire irons; Truck tire spoons |
| Razor knives — Bail cutting knives; Curved-point scalpel knives; Taper point knives; Thermocutters |
| Reamers — Heavy duty T-handle reamers; Tire reamers |
| Shears — Scissors; Trimmer shears |
| Vulcanizing machines — Hot vulcanizing plates |
Technology used in this occupation:
| Accounting software |
| Project management software — Project estimation software; Recordkeeping software |
