2003 Nissan Sentra Gets New Tires -Fixing it Forward

1. i love the sound of that tire changer and it is on a inverter as well

2. 195 is an undersized tire for this car. Should have came 205. Pretty much everyone upgrades to those.

3. I love to rub my penis all over a new tire!

4. What about road force?

5. Michelin = comfort en a good fuel/mileage ratio.

6. Can’t wait to buy another set of Michelin Premier A/S tires. Fantastic excellent tire.

7. 7:08 chancellor eric palpatine

8. Lacquer thinner could have worked dissolving tire stain on rims

9. The wrong tires still have “good meat on them”

10. You use a lot of tyre paste. It's not wrong, but it makes the tyre a little messy. Use a really tiny amount, you only need a slight film for it to work just as well as how much you used there. Not saying it's wrong or anything, but I use a little less, and it looks cleaner. Big up on cleaning the rim, I've seen some dedicated tyre shops just leave it as it is, chuck a tyre on it and send it down the road. Also, using hammer-on weights on alloys, I personally do not like that. I use stick-ons for any alloy as the hammer-on weights tend to marr the surface and beating on the alloy in cases where the weight doesn't go on after two or three whacks can crack it. Plus they look ugly, whereas on steels, they're usually hidden by the clip-on wheel trim. Where I work, at the very least, we only use hammer-on weights on steel wheels and anything else gets stick-ons.

    However, I am talking as someone who has no where near as much experience as you, but this is from my (two-ish years) of experience.

    Nothing like the smell of new tyres and the nice, supple feel of the tyres compared to the circular bricks that used be there! 😛

11. Thank you very much erick for educational vedio you are legent mechanic i hope vedeo to release

12. I wish you lived in SF so you can fix my car! What tire model is this? Michelin defenders?

13. I wish I could afford new tires but I can't i am on ssi and baby and 🚗 payment

14. Michelin tyres are horrible, not good as Continentals

15. Maybe it’s just me but you would think that car would have a manual transmission just saying

16. Take the gloves off when you test drive..

17. when the bottom bead dosent break you can use the bar or thing that looks like a disc to the right. you just go below the tire and pull up as your rotating the tire. saves a lot of time instead of taking the tire off the machine and breaking it how you did

18. hey eric i love the series of fix it forward! – when i am done spending money on my car (teens first car) i will be donating some money to help!

    i think this is an awesome cause!

19. Back when I work at good year we have a pedal that pushes a gush of air to set the bead. I think only some machine have that. Now I work at a factory… =(

20. Chain,pump,rack,oil,plugs,sensors,tires,brakes,doors,valve,TLC and more. Roughly costing ~$5,000 in that area for a normal person. KBB says the car is worth ~$2,000. Mike and Ed would say, 'You've given new life to a car that would have otherwise met the crusher'. I admire your effort. That Sentra should exceed the 305,000 miles of Jerry's last car.

21. yo eric, why didn't you clean or polish the wheels before installing them in new tires ?

22. nice to see you've got yourself a tire station Eric

23. what type of tire lube do you use?

24. eric can I come to your shop and play with your new toys lol love that tire machine

25. falken zeix 912s, those things such

26. the ser v-spec engines are junk they have power but they don't take a beating like Hondas b series

27. I have a Nissan Sentra B15 2006 Engine 4 cilinder 1.8. I put on 2 new cooper tires and now all the plastic cracks when i go on the roads in El Salvador.. Shitty roads. how can i fix that?

28. There is no better feeling than the test drive after any fix…only a mechanic can get this excited..I sound exactly the same after every fix. Great videos, Eric. Always a pleasure watching your vids.

29. I've seen those chrome sleeves cause leaks because of the weight of them. If people want new stems, I toss them in the trash.

30. With all this work done to this car, pls comment on whether it a worth it economically to do this. What would all of this work cost if a. I had it done in a shop or b. just parts and I did it myself (except for tires, not a normal diy).

31. Michelin defenders are great tires to

32. Are those old tires yokohamas? I have the same car with Yokohamas and it is unbearably loud over 25 MPH.

33. Love new Tires, I always buy the best I can, and it takes me a whole day just to select the right ones lol

34. what make were the old tires

35. always wanted to know how wheels were changed! now I just have to find a mechanic as considerate and professional as you!

36. Did you actually have this car in the shop for five months or is that just (I hope) editing lag?

37. Last person that put weights on the outside of my wheels I cracked up side the head and got banned from the place

38. You gotta use the roloc disc while using the tire machine to spin the wheel for you. Way easier than taking it off and doing it on the ground

39. I have NEXEN tires on my ride two years now and really I want to convert to Michelin soon as I can thanks Eric

40. My heart beats with your doing your job with this way ,. Eric I really want to work with you !!

41. Why don't you use lube on the barrel of the wheel? it make popping the tire on the bead so much easier.

42. No ABS? My 99 Malibu came standard with ABS.

43. I work in a tire shop and changing tires never gets old compared to some nightmare repairs.

44. best fix ever

45. instead of taking the tire back off to complete breaking the bead with the bead breaker just twist instead of pulling straight up on the tire it works flawlessly

46. Wow so that's how tire machines are supposed to sound, lol.

    I've had a chinese knockoff machine for the past 11 years. It's noisy and crude, but does the job. Boy, I could use that little roller you have there! Sometimes I fight with certain sized tires. Just yesterday I couldn't even dismount a pair of aftermarket 20"wheels for a Chevy pickup – I couldn't get that super-wide tire into the drop-center! Another set of rollers would've helped there.

    That tilt option is a nice feature too. Mine lacks that. Got to get a plastic guard for my bead breaker like that one has – mine has never had one. Got to be very careful with it. Overall it's been pretty reliable for a chinese unit. Broke a few things over the years, but not as many as you'd think. I'm on my second balancer though – the first one developed a strange issue where the display and buttons would totally freeze up below 45° out in my barn. Got 5 years out of it. It still worked if you hit the display with a heat gun first, so I was able to get a couple hundred for it on Craigslist, and bought a new WB-41 from Greg Smith Equipment. So far, on year 5 now, that one has been flawless.

    Yep – always fill with the core out of the stem – it's 10x faster. 🙂

47. Hey Eric, just some mounting tips from a guy that did it for years. Only single break the front side and doubt(or triple) break the back side of the rim. This usually prevents having to remove the rim and re-breaking the backside. Some low-pro's and rim styles still may have to be re done but should save you some time.

    Secondly I know they are older alloys but outside clamp the rims. It prevents the scratches and pits from inside clamping

    Otherwise I love what you're doing. Keep it up.

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