Poll: Cost to add water & anti-freeze to tires

[pbarnett]

What would be a fair charge for adding water & antifreeze to the rear tires of my M7040?

My local Kubota dealer just charged me the following:

$195.00 - (1) Install tire ballast (water/antifreeze solution)
$ 48.32 - (4) Miscellaneous Parts
$ 17.03 - Tax

$260.35 - TOTAL

I feel as though I have just been run over by my M7040

 

[Bulldog]

I would say they put at least 5 gallons of anti-freeze per side. So if you were lucky it would cost $100 - $150 just for anti-freeze. If they used more the cost would be higher so I guess for them doing all the work it wasn't that bad.

 

[pbarnett]

2 Gallons per tire

 

[lsmurphy]

4 20oz bottles of Dawn dish soap (2 per tire) would cost you about $12 and water is damn near free.

 

[Bulldog]

2 Gallons per tire

Must not get cold where you are. I was told to put 3 gallons in each of my 11.2 x 24's and something like a 30 or 38" tire needed 5 gallons minimum.

 

[Tx Jim]

Rather than pay dealer I do it myself. I've filled many tires with liquid years back. All it takes is a jack,valve stem/water hose adapter,funnel for antifreeze and a little time. "Nothing to it,a baby could do if you held them up to it"

 

[Tx Jim]

4 20oz bottles of Dawn dish soap (2 per tire) would cost you about $12 and water is damn near free.

How does soap keep liquid from freezing?

 

[Breeze]

Ethylene Glycol (Anti-Freeze) is both sweet and very poisonous. Just a taste is sufficient to seriously injure or kill a small child, dog or cat.

I would be hesitant to use this in tires which are prone to leaks. There are good alternatives available.

 

[fuzzydawg]

I spent about $100 for 16 jugs of antifreeze (got O'Reilly house brand on sale) and put 16 gallons of 50/50 water/antifreeze mix in each rear 11.2 X 24 ag tire. Did it myself, easy job but took a couple hours (including time for a beer break, of course). Plus I spent maybe $5 on the hose-to-valve-stem connector.

So, it looks like your cost wasn't real extreme. Back out the $17 taxes, and you paid $243 for something you could have done yourself for around $105. Difference of $138 is presumably labor. Maybe an hour and a half at $90 per hour?

I'd say you did okay.

Update: re-read the thread and saw "2 gallons per tire". Assuming they also put 2 gallons of water in there on each side, that's only 4 gallons per tire. Hardly worth the effort. Changes my opinion to "yeah, too high"!

 

[skeets]

IM with you dawg cheapest stuff I could find mixed 50/50 also if you look around some you might find a salvage yard they will let you have the anti freeze for almost nothing,,We did that for a friend took 2 55gal drums and filled them,,, the yards have to pay to have the stuff hauled away I think he gave a buck a gallon

 

[bandaidmd]

30 gallon of rim guard was $100 installed.