Jobs / Construction, installation, and repair / 49-3093.00
Tire Repairers and Changers
Repair and replace tires.
- US jobs
- 108,410
- Median wage
- $37,710 a year
- Job family
- Construction, installation, and repair
Can agents do the work of tire repairers and changers?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Construction, installation, and repair: Unmeasured (no change in 12 months)
No direct benchmark gives a success rate.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 21%Repair vehicle componentsNot measured
- 20%Assemble equipment or componentsNot measured
- 12%Inspect vehiclesNot measured
- 9%Disassemble equipmentNot measured
- 8%Maintain vehicles in working conditionNot measured
- 7%Smooth surfaces of objects or equipmentNot measured
- 7%Clean tools, equipment, facilities, or work areasNot measured
- 5%Operate lifting or moving equipmentNot measured
Unmeasured territory
No benchmark in this atlas covers this work yet.
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.
- Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
- Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.
- Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.
- Reassemble tires onto wheels.
- Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement.
- Remount wheels onto vehicles.
- Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.
- Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
- Apply rubber cement to buffed tire casings prior to vulcanization process.
- Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
- Buff defective areas of inner tubes, using scrapers.
Other job titles for this occupation (21)
Alignment Technician (Alignment Tech) · Lube Technician (Lube Tech) · Service Technician (Service Tech) · Tire Alignment Technician (Tire Alignment Tech) · Tire Changer · Tire Installer · Tire Repairer · Tire Shop Mechanic · Tire Technician (Tire Tech) · Truck Tire Service Operator · Auto Tire Worker (Automotive Tire Worker) · Commercial Tire Service Technician (Commercial Tire Service Tech) · Commercial Tire Technician (Commercial Tire Tech) · Mobile Tire Technician (Mobile Tire Tech) · Tire Balancer · Tire Care Technician (Tire Care Tech) · Tire Fixer · Tire Maintenance Technician (Tire Maintenance Tech) · Tire Mechanic · Tire Servicer · Tire Worker