Tire Mounting & Balancing, my perfect fresh fuchs Options

[seanery]

I've got a great set of freshly refinished 16x6 fuchs and new tires that will go on whitey. I don't want to take them down to the local tire "department store" where the 16 year old kids are working...under poor supervision most times. My fears are scratches, poor balance, weights on the outside, etc...

I've contacted two shops:
One of them is a local race shop that specializes in Mazda and does some Porsche as well for about $100.
The other shop is a high dollar Euro shop that does excellent work, supports our PCA region, participates in races and DEs, but the cost is $166.40.

Which would you choose and why?

[markb]

Pay the $66.00 and count yourself lucky. I just dropped off one of Marcie's 16's back at the shop that put tires on it last week. They have ONLY one guy they allow to work on our car, because we put the car in occasional shows and want them to be very careful. I guess he wasn't the only one who worked on it this time. Scratched the lip on one of the wheels. It's in a place where it couldn't be gotten to if a tire was on the rim. The owners response when I had him look at it this morning? "Those scratches are older than I am". Think I'll ever go back to him again? NOPE! Think I'll ever send anybody to him again? NOPE. Be a smarta$$ with me, lose business. It's the second chance I've given him (he scratched up the rims on the 914, no biggie, but I spent a lot of time stripping and painting them to make them look good, until he banged them up). YMMV, just my .02.