Profession tyre fitter

Tyre fitters inspect, maintain, repair and fit tyres to vehicles. They advise clients on different tyre and wheel types. Furthermore they balance the tyres, verify that the wheels are aligned correctly and ensure compliance with safety standards and regulations.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional
• Realistic / Enterprising
• Realistic / Conventional
• Realistic / Investigative

Knowledge

• Types of tyres

  Different types of rubber coverings and inflated tubes used for specific vehicles and weather conditions such as winter and summer tyres, performance tyres, truck or tractor tyres.

Skills

• Inspect repaired tyres

  Inspect the rebuffed and fully vulcanized tyres in order to detect if any flaws are still present.

• Maintain technical equipment

  Maintain an inventory of cultivation equipment and supplies. Order additional materials as needed.

• Sell tyres

  Identify the customer's needs. Advise them on the right type of tyres and process payments.

• Replace tyres

  Replace worn out or broken tyres of motor vehicles by using hand and power tools. Choose new tyres according to customer requirements and motor vehicle model.

• Inspect worn tyres

  Evaluate the worn tyres and check at possible damages (cuts, cracks, etc) in order to determine possible retread.

• Ensure equipment availability

  Ensure that the necessary equipment is provided, ready and available for use before start of procedures.

• Balance tyres

  Measure the static and dynamic balance of tyres using sensors, bubble balancers and spin balancers, and adjust by fitting weights on the wheel to correct any unbalance and avoid vibrations, noise and ocillations.

• Clean tyres

  Clean the completed tyres in order to prepare them for painting.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB