Remount wheels onto vehicles.

“Remount wheels onto vehicles.” is a core task performed by Tire Repairers and Changers. Among the occupation's 26 rated tasks, workers place it 25th by importance (#2 most important). About 99% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Assemble equipment or components. in Handling and Moving Objects

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T0.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks. · importance 4.6
• Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools. · importance 4.5
• Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly. · importance 4.5
• Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels. · importance 4.5
• Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects. · importance 4.4
• Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels. · importance 4.4
• Reassemble tires onto wheels. · importance 4.3
• Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools. · importance 4.3
• Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes or tears. · importance 4.3
• Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles. · importance 4.3
• Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement. · importance 4.3
• Assist mechanics and perform various mechanical duties, such as changing oil or checking and replacing batteries. · importance 4.3
• Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools. · importance 4.2
• Clean and tidy up the shop. · importance 4.1

See all tasks on the Tire Repairers and Changers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-8365,
  title  = {Remount wheels onto vehicles.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-8365}
}