Tyres in Argentina or Bolivia
 

I am on my way north in Argentina. It is time to change tyres on my Himalayan. How is supply and prices in north of Argentina compared to Boliva ?

Suggestion for best places to search ?

Example Salta or La Paz ?

Suggestion of specific store/ workshop ?

Thanks

1- Google is your friend
2- Tour companies usually can offer advice or get them for you for a fee
3-Have you had a look in 'Communities' to see if there are some 'hubb locals' who may give you local info?

and it might help if you tell people that your himalayan needs 90/90/21 and 120/90/17

Did u google maps “royal enfield salta”

Most common tyres, any bike store will do

if you buy with western union exchange rate argentina is not that expensive.
all my argentinian motorbike friends buy in chile whenever they can.
the difference will not be that significant.

I would definitely buy the tires in Argentina. Buenos Aires if you can.

Bolivia is not an easy place to find moto parts.

RE dealer
 

The Royal Enfield dealer in Salta does nit sell tyres. Neirher can he point ro some that provides !!!

Google did not help me. That is why I asked for experiences from real world

Well. On my map, Buenos Aires is not in the North of Argentina.

Not anyone that has changed tyres in Salta.
And that can share at what workshop ?

In fairness, “On my way north in Argentina” does not mean “I am in northern Argentina.” The first is a directional heading, the second a location.

I’m going to *guess* that you can either find your tires in Salta or have them delivered within a couple of days. But you might end up wishing you’d taken care of this in Mendoza, B.A., Asunción, or wherever you came from.

Most would agree that La Paz would be a poor choice. Besides, there is lots of good riding on the way there, and it won’t be much fun if you’re worried about your tires.

Mark

Tyre vendoor in Salta
 

Thanks. Another usefull replay. Should have done this in Mendoza. Will help me a lot.

Still not one usefull piece of information.

One say - only google
Next say - should have been done earlier.
And ...

Solved the SA way
 

We think that internet, google and... will solve everything.
So many E mails I have sent to dealers with no responce. But when you talk to them and have patience, things work.

Short story. The RE dealer took me to a guy with tyres. But few and small. A lot of phone calls later from the RE dealer, I got the name and adress of a company that could sell me tyres. I went there. But next to them was anothef company. That could offer me two different solutions. I decided to buy one of them. And a big pack of cash changed owner. So now I know two good places to buy tires in Salta.

But they could not mount them. But ride to the semaphor. Turn left. Keep left i the Y fork and you will find a gomeria. Name ? Private. No name...
I passed the gomeria and had to ask a small mc workshop for directions. But he offered me to mount the tyres. Ok. He did that on the sidewalk. The RE did not enter the door.

Task done by patence and a lot of talking...


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Later I talked a lot to a very experienced mc traveller from Argentina. He thought that I should have waited to change tyres until Boliva.

I'm not sure how far you are into your trip Erik. You might want to take a break and think about, "your attitude," and the way you are, "treating others."

I was surprised to see that you were from Sweden. I've met lots of Swede travelers and none of them sounded the way you sound.

You should say 'thank you' to the people who gave you advice in this thread. It might not have been the 'spoon fed' advice that you wanted. The valuable advice that you got was, "you are making a mistake, don't look for tires in Bolivia."

Well said. I declined from giving the OP a couple of addresses/ GPS coordinates of tyre shops in La Paz who would definitely have had tyres for him, because of his previous interactions with me when asking for advice. It seems I wasn't the problem :D

Therein lies the problem
 

with any website; a massive percentage are just users/info harvesters. Thank goodness a small but fab minority try to help.
What I have observed after a loooooong time on the Hubb is that there are some wonderful people who will go out of their way to help travellers in many ways.

Sadly, down to a lack of appreciation (like 4 little words to 'thank you so much'...) many no longer place data or offer to help as they feel used.

@ Erik_G
While I am glad you have found a solution to what you needed however could you please explain why you could not be bothered to post up the GPS coordinates of the tyre shop and fitter to help others? :oops2:

Just curious...