Posted on 05/10/2008 9:13:09 AM PDT by Abathar
If you can afford it and have the option go with a nitrogen purge and fill on new tires. Eliminating the oxygen on the inside rubber can make a big difference in the rubber breaking down, also helps maintain constant pressure during temperature variations when driving.
New tires ride better and have better handling characteristics. Nothing like fresh tires for the weekly expedition to the grocers.
I’m going to buy a new car this summer and was thinking about getting nitrogen-filled tires. Trouble is, if the dealer doesn’t offer nitrogen-filled tires, how do I go about finding a shop that will? For once, my Google-Fu is weak.
My tires are 7 years old. Maybe they should be replaced? There are only about 40k miles on them, though.
“If you can afford it and have the option go with a nitrogen purge and fill on new tires”
Excellent point, the airlines & military have been doing this for decades.
To my knowledge, ALL petroleum products eventually break down over time.
And what might those $$$ be?
Well, maybe the Air Force is, but on my Army post, we use air.
How does a tire sit on the rack for 10 years. They lost the time value of money.
Storage method is key to the debate, imo. Example - UV rays coming through a service station window will deteriorate a sidewall much faster than a climately controlled environment at Sears. I am surprised storage wasn’t mentioned.
You can take them to any tire shop that offers it, the best way by far is when they mount the tire to use pressurized nitrogen though.
Instead of just depressurizing them and re-pressuring them with N, most of the air will still have humidity and O in them. Best to find a place that uses N in the machine that sets the bead also, it purges a lot of the normal air out when they do it.
True story, I needed to add “air” to my tires so I plumbed my TIG welding line to a tire filler and popped it on the tire, then just dialed the pressure off the argon tank and filled them with my welder.
My old man walked by while I had the welder on and stepping on the pedal and thought I was nuts, but it worked just fine.
Depends, maybe $15 a tire, a lot of places will throw it in for free if you buy new tires from them and you can “negotiate” it in the deal also.
How about filling your tires with Helium? A floating car would get far better gas mileage. Just stick some sails on it, and your good to go!
(yes that was a joke)
=)
Yes they do, but there are a lot of factors that can cause them to do it much faster than “normal”.
Put a drop or two of Tyulene (sic) in a tire and watch it come apart in hours, same thing with ether. Nitrogen won’t react with the rubber like oxygen does, it doesn’t “bloom” the wax out of it as fast.
Hmmm. I have a camper trailer that is 10 years old, and has the original tires on it (we never took long trips with it, so it has low mileage). I have been wondering to myself if I should replace them, and this confirms my suspicions.
Good point.
Buy only fresh tires. The tire has many things in the code including date of manufacture.
I never knew the code on the sidewall for determining the age, most of my tires are used up or sold before 8 years so I never really needed to know.
Those tires might have been sitting for a few years before you bought them also, and if they sit for long periods of time they are more prone to cracks than tires rolled often are.
Expert witness for hire?
Does anybody else see the self-contradiction of this idiot's statement?
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