On 7 Aug 2018 19:53:34 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> At least with tubed tires the bead will seat sooner or later.

Seating the bead is trivial.

There are 6 beads to deal with, only one of which is tactically difficult
on sedan & SUV tires (I've never done anything bigger than 17 inches).

Old Ti
1. Breaking the top bead
2. Breaking the bottom bead
3. Removing the top bead
4. Removing the bottom bead
New Ti
5. Seating the bottom bead
6. Seating the top bead

The only hard one is the last bead (requires knowledge of the drop center).

The first bead is hard only if you don't have a good bead breaker.
(For years, I used the bead-breaker attachment instead of a separate bead
breaker. I'll never recommend that attachment except for puny 15 inch tires
or smaller - which most of mine are not - because SUV tires were difficult
using that attachment - but easy using the stand-alone bead breaker).

The rest of the beads are so easy as to not even be worth mentioning.

Sealing works in seconds if you remove the valve core and screw on the
compressor gun. It pops once or thrice and it's done before you get to
fifty psi. Then you lower the air pressure to whatever you like and you're
done seating the thing. It's that easy.

I've done about 20 tires (I stopped counting once I broke even).
I'm doing four more on the Mitsubishi (I only did the one that blew out).

The 14-inch Mitsubishi tire was so easy as to be not even worth noting.

Anyone who complains that doing a tire is too hard will have to get the
question from me as to whether they've actually done it, because it's so
easy that it's not funny (if you have the tools that I have).