Tyre Pliers or similar

[Ean Austral]

Gday All,


I read a while back that tyre pliers are not suitable for land rover rims. Has anyone got any first hand experience using a tyre plier of whatever brand on a D3 alloy rim.


If so which type or if you made your own.


Many Thanks


Cheers Ean

[Dougal]

I've used them on 16 inch rrc rims and never again. Difficult work and garks up the bead of an alloy rim.

Perfectly fine on agricultural rims that you don't care about. As long as you're strong enough and can break the bead.

[Blknight.aus]

Haven't had any issue with them...

Fortunately most ally rim owners now believe that it can't be done so as soon as I break out the tyre pliers to help out with a repair they're more interested in risking the rest of the trip with no spare than maybe getting some marks on the rim...

Which defeats the whole point of four wheeling anyway, if your so worried about damaging your rims repairing a flat you've over looked the trail damage that will prob a my have been caused anyway and might as well stay on the black top in range of the racq.

The r&r bead breaker works as well but takes about three to eight times as long to use.

[Graeme]

For D2 alloy rims an optional LR-speciific foot is needed but don't know if the same applies for D3 rims. It did the job on a 16" D2 rim, albeit slowly but without any drama. The wheel and tool owner wasn't impressed when the tyre had to be removed a 2nd time due to a hastily-applied patch not sticking but didn't know that the 2nd time the bead would not be stuck.

Edit: Maybe it was a R&R - can't be sure.

[goingbush]

Of course they bloody work on Landrover rims, I recently swapped my worn 35x12.5R17 tyres on 17x9 Iveco rims in a caravan park with the same tyre pliers that I used to swap Landrover tyres on.

If you can change tyres yourself trackside then your not adequately prepared to go 4x4 touring. Tyre Pliers are quickest and easiest bead breaking tool Ive ever used.

[shanegtr]

Hi lift jack has always worked for me breaking beads when required.......

[Dougal]

Of course they bloody work on Landrover rims, I recently swapped my worn 35x12.5R17 tyres on 17x9 Iveco rims in a caravan park with the same tyre pliers that I used to swap Landrover tyres on.

If you can change tyres yourself trackside then your not adequately prepared to go 4x4 touring. Tyre Pliers are quickest and easiest bead breaking tool Ive ever used.
A 12t digger is the best bead breaker I've ever used. I've had to deal with some tyres that were very very friendly with the rims.

I should mention that p class tyres are much easier to mount and unmount than LT.

[goingbush]

Hi lift jack has always worked for me breaking beads when required.......

if you try tyre pliers one time, you will throw your high lift jack to the ****house

[shanegtr]

if you try tyre pliers one time, you will throw your high lift jack to the ****house
I probably wouldn't, I've had to use a hi lift jack for jacking more times than ive needed it for breaking a bead. Space is at a premium for me when traveling so I don't need to carry around more stuff than I require

[AndyG]

Are we referring to the brand or a generic term when you say Tyre Pliers ?

[goingbush]

I didn't know there was a generic version,

these are tyre pliers as I know them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-TYxLyQh04

( I carried a high lift jack for years and rarely used it , I left it bolted to the back of the Defender when I sold it, I found it easier to break beads by driving over them than using a high lift jack, and easier tenfold with tyre pliers)

[AndyG]

In my ignorance i was taken to , which is the same

index (http://www.tyrepliers.com.au/)

Looks like someone cleverly registered a generic term

[Nomad9]

Hi There,
R & R bead breaker, yes I know it takes longer however I've never damaged a rim, for the extra time I'm good. I'm not in the pits in a formula 1 race. Tyre pliers would be my second choice, 12t whatever it was I don't take one of them away with me when I travel, same with the HL jack, agree it works however requires a bit of practice to get it right, I found it did anyway, plus I don't need the extra 20 kilos and finding somewhere to strap it on.
My opinions others may vary..............