Tire Repairers and Changers
Repair and replace tires.
108,410 people do this job in the US. $37,710 a year.
of the working time. Estimate.
- 1%
- 0%
- 99%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 1%. Today's estimate: 1%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 25 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reassemble tires onto wheels.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 15 min8 min to 21 min | Stays with people | |
| Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Drive automobile or service trucks to industrial sites to provide services or respond to emergency calls.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 9% | 38 min17 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Assist mechanics and perform various mechanical duties, such as changing oil or checking and replacing batteries.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Clean and tidy up the shop.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| Prepare rims and wheel drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding, or sandblasting.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 17 min8 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Remount wheels onto vehicles.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 5% | 8 min4 min to 15 min | Stays with people | |
| Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 8 min4 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 8 min4 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 4% | 8 min4 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 13 min8 min to 21 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
Where this job works
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Where the most of these jobs are
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