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Will AI replace Tire Repairers and Changers?

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Baseline AI displacement risk for Tire Repairers and Changers, aggregated from 3 research sources.

What this score means

Tire Repairers and Changers is among the least exposed roles in Construction & Trades. Most of what the job involves still sits outside what current AI can do, even as the tools around it keep changing. At 11 out of 100 it scores 3 points below the Construction & Trades average of 14. Across the 3 sources behind this baseline, individual estimates run from 5 to 20, so the score is a weighted consensus rather than any single figure.

The number is a consensus estimate for the typical version of the role, built from published academic and industry research scored occupation by occupation. It is not a prediction about any individual. How scoring works

What this job actually involves

Exposure follows the work itself rather than the job title, so it is worth seeing what the role is made of. These are the tasks O*NET records for Tire Repairers and Changers, most central first, showing 12 of 24.

01Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.
02Remount wheels onto vehicles.
03Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.
04Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
05Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.
06Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
07Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
08Reassemble tires onto wheels.
09Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.
10Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes or tears.
11Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
12Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement.

Task statements from O*NET by the National Center for O*NET Development, used under CC BY 4.0. The tasks are descriptive; the exposure score above is ours.

The research behind this score

This baseline aggregates 3 research sources that scored Tire Repairers and Changers for AI and automation exposure. More recent, higher confidence studies carry more weight in the final number.

01Anthropic Economic Index 2026 - AI Task Exposure · 2026
02GPTs are GPTs: Labor Market Impact Potential of LLMs · 2024
03AI Occupational Exposure to Language Modeling · 2023

Also covers

Alignment Technician · Automotive Tire Worker (Auto Tire Worker) · Brake and Alignment Technician (Brake and Alignment Tech) · Commercial Tire Service Tech (Commercial Tire Service Technician) · Commercial Tire Tech (Commercial Tire Technician) · Lube Technician · Maintenance Technician · Mobile Tire Tech (Mobile Tire Technician) and related titles

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