Job Check
Tire Repairers and Changers
Repair and replace tires.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.Mostly human for now
- 02Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.Mostly human for now
- 03Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.Mostly human for now
- 04Raise vehicles, using hydraulic jacks.Mostly human for now
- 05Reassemble tires onto wheels.Mostly human for now
- 06Glue tire patches over ruptures in tire casings, using rubber cement.Mostly human for now
- 07Remount wheels onto vehicles.Mostly human for now
- 08Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.Mostly human for now
- 09Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.Mostly human for now
- 10Apply rubber cement to buffed tire casings prior to vulcanization process.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
0%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 4% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 86% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Unbolt and remove wheels from vehicles, using lug wrenches or other hand or power tools.
- Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
- Identify tire size and ply and inflate tires accordingly.