Tire Repairers and Changers

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.