With the development of tire equipment matching the standards of how fast new cars are brought into the market every year, it is very difficult for a garage or workshop to know which tire equipment is needed and which they can do without. Currently in the tire equipment market today there are probably over 30 different types of machinery which are frankly, redundant. With prices ranging in the thousands, one is not at the luxury of holding every type in their garage or workshop so it is quite important to see where one invests their money and why. One of the most popular and recommended tire equipment in the market today is the NTC-980 Fully Automatic Tire Changer with Dual Assist Arms. This has all the functions that any tire equipment machine would expect to have. It offers both rim clamping from the inside and out between a range of 14 to 28 inches. It can hold a wheel with a maximum diameter of 47 inches and maximum wheel width of 16 inches. It is a heavy duty piece of tire equipment that can stand the “heat”. It is strong, durable and very easy to use. Maybe the most important feature that this particular tire equipment has is that it is very safe in comparison to other tire equipment machines on the market. Even though it may look very complicated at first with all the arms and gadgets sticking out of the machine, when one comes to use it, it becomes second nature.