Sounds good to me.
Tier pressure should be on the door jam of the driver’s side door.
Generally: no.
Just follow manufacturer’s recommendations, which usually calls for the same pressure front and rear.
Um, no.
Get a piece of sidewalk chalk.
Get your car on a flat, straight section of road in your neighborhood or a very large parking lot. Do this with tires cold (not driven on), morning is best.
Make a wide stripe ACROSS the tread (side to side) of each tire, but even a 1/4” stripe will do.
Drive your car STRAIGHT ahead, no turning of the wheel for fifty to 100 feet.
Stop the car, look at each chalk stripe.
IF the tire pressures are correct FOR YOUR CAR (not manufacturer’s recommended TP as these are always ridiculously low), the stripes will have worn evenly across the tire.
If TP is HIGH, center(s) will be worn/obliterated.
If TP is LOW, outsides will be worn.
Adjust TP accordingly.
Simple. EZPZ.
I’ve been through 8 sets of tires on my FR-S and spent a fair amount of time in Ft86club.com discussing tires and tire pressure.
The short answer for those not racing is to simply follow the tire pressure guidelines printed on the door frame of your car, regardless of the car you drive or the tires you are using.
The long answer is available through an internet search.
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No. The manufacturer has already accounted for that. The striker plate on the driver’s door should show you recommended air pressure. It is unlikely you know more than they do, especially for normal driving. If you drive outside the normal envelope (off road, heavier loads, whathaveyou) consult people whose opinion you trust.
Of course you should. Auto manufacturers often forget that they installed an engine in the car and the recommended tire pressures are for cars without engines.
Follow either what vehicle recommends or the writing on the side wall of the tire for the info.
Usually, vehicles are balanced pressure throughout, even with front wheel drive
Buy a high quality brand of tire of the type you prefer such as all season, have the car serviced at regular intervals usually 5,000 miles or so by a reputable shop - usually the shop is the dealer for your car make.
The tires your car comes with when brand new are usually not high quality like Michelin and others and will wear out after 25-30,000 miles. Get tires rated for over 80,000 miles
Forget about tire pressures and just drive.
No, just inflate to the pressures indicated on the sticker on the doorjamb. If you’re racing, disregard as you already know what you’re doing, but I bet you’re not racing. ;)
I start at about 4.5 pounds on a drag car and adjust for the best 60 ft times.
There was a vehicle, for which the differential between the front and rear tires was an ESSENTIAL part of the engineering, yet many people failed to heed the warnings.
The Chevrolet Corvair, a rear-engined vehicle from the early and middle 1960’s (and a classic in its own right), in which the recommendations were for the pressure in the FRONT tires was to be ab about 4 PSI less than the rear tires, so the front wheels would “stick” more while rounding a curve. But with the tires pumped up to the same pressure, there was a tendency to continue to plow straight ahead with the front wheels slewing, and resulted in either an overturn or just shooting straight off the side of the road. Ralph Nader seized upon this unusual road behavior, and denounced the Corvair as “Unsafe at Any Speed”, a screed meant to attack GM on every level, and led to the early discontinuance of the production of the Corvair.
“Safety” experts are such rectal orifices at times.
There are several factors involved...
Are you loose or tight entering the corner? Exiting the corner? If loose, lower the tires 5 psi and adjust the wedge a half turn. If tight, do the opposite.
Are you racing on dirt or asphalt or concrete?
Are you running in the Daytona race which has been moved from being run last night to today at 1pm? If so, boy, gonna be a crap shoot hitting on the right set up now being that there hasn’t been many daytime July races run at Daytona, ever. Track is gonna be about 40 ish degrees hotter than it woulda been last night, and slicker than owl dung. I’d say start out 18 psi lower in the front and 24 lower in the back. Only God knows.
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President Obama says you should keep all your tires inflated to the maximum possible. Of course, Obama knows as much about automobiles as he knows about pulling economies out of recession or returning them to full employment. In fact, if Obama treated his car the way he treated his country, he would tell you that your tire’s current pressure was the “new normal” and you should “manage the decline” in your car’s performance until it runs out of fuel.
“That air is not coming back,” he might say. Anyone claiming to fix the tire pressure he would say was “waving a magic wand”.
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Did change the mounting location of the engine?
Did you change out engine from small black to big block?
You MUST diversify by inflating each tire to a different air pressure...or better use a different size tire all around so each size is represented when you drive.
I used to always run up my tire pressure to the sidewall max (which is always on the high side), you know for gas mileage. Needless to say I never noticed any improvement, but I did notice that I lost handling and that the tires would often develop bubbles and had to be replaced. After 20 years or so, I learned my lesson.