Your experience with nitrogen filled tires
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Your experience with nitrogen filled tires
All,
This is my first car with nitrogen-filled tires, and still too new to draw any conclusions. So I would like to know, long term, is it worth it to keep filling them with N2 instead of air? Is tire pressure more stable with N2 instead of air? Hard to believe, given the relative small composition difference between air and pure N2.
What has been your experience?
This is my first car with nitrogen-filled tires, and still too new to draw any conclusions. So I would like to know, long term, is it worth it to keep filling them with N2 instead of air? Is tire pressure more stable with N2 instead of air? Hard to believe, given the relative small composition difference between air and pure N2.
What has been your experience?
#2
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All,
This is my first car with nitrogen-filled tires, and still too new to draw any conclusions. So I would like to know, long term, is it worth it to keep filling them with N2 instead of air? Is tire pressure more stable with N2 instead of air? Hard to believe, given the relative small composition difference between air and pure N2.
What has been your experience?
This is my first car with nitrogen-filled tires, and still too new to draw any conclusions. So I would like to know, long term, is it worth it to keep filling them with N2 instead of air? Is tire pressure more stable with N2 instead of air? Hard to believe, given the relative small composition difference between air and pure N2.
What has been your experience?
End of lesson............. :-)
Last edited by compyelc4; 01-22-2019 at 07:26 PM.
#6
Those with pure Nitrogen swear that there are no pressure variances from very cold to warm weather. Costco tire shops offer this for free when you get tires there. That means you have to go back there if you need more Nitrogen. Like others I wonder how pure N is added to purge regular air.
#7
Those with pure Nitrogen swear that there are no pressure variances from very cold to warm weather. Costco tire shops offer this for free when you get tires there. That means you have to go back there if you need more Nitrogen. Like others I wonder how pure N is added to purge regular air.
#8
The reality is that the real problem with airing up tires with a conventional compressor is that you are putting water into the tire. Over time you can have a puddle of water inside the tire. So they compressor you use should have a Dryer system attached to make sure you're not adding water with every adjustment fillup. Of course the "nitrogen only service" is largely water free, so of course there's no chance of water pooling inside. So if you have a compressor at home, add a dryer attachment to it. If it's just a little dinky hand held, you might be taking a chance, but not that big a deal. I am pretty sure that most of the decent gas station air pumps have dryers in them, but you really don't know unless you ask, and even then, the clerk may not be aware either way.
#9
As a driver who is totally **** about my psi, and who is constantly adjusting my psi in order to keep all four tires at the same psi, and who lives thirty-five miles from my primary dealer (nitrogen source), nitrogen is not a logical option. To properly replace either pure air or a mixture of pure air and nitrogen with nitrogen, the tire must be filled and drained with nitrogen several times. That seems like a pain in the *** to me. If I ran my car on tracks or owned an airplane, then yes, nitrogen would be my choice.
#10
I've had Nitrogen in my 2017 since I got it in May of 2018, and I have not had to do anything to the tires at all. They still look full and firm and the tire pressure when I drive will start out low (not alarmingly low) but will rise as I'm driving. I love having it in my tires, especially in the cold weather having had the experiences in the past with losing pressure during the winter. I carry a portable air pump and I haven't used it since before my 7th Gen was traded.
#12
The reality is that the real problem with airing up tires with a conventional compressor is that you are putting water into the tire. Over time you can have a puddle of water inside the tire. So they compressor you use should have a Dryer system attached to make sure you're not adding water with every adjustment fillup. Of course the "nitrogen only service" is largely water free, so of course there's no chance of water pooling inside. So if you have a compressor at home, add a dryer attachment to it. If it's just a little dinky hand held, you might be taking a chance, but not that big a deal. I am pretty sure that most of the decent gas station air pumps have dryers in them, but you really don't know unless you ask, and even then, the clerk may not be aware either way.
#13
Pooling water was an extreme note, just to point out the possibility especially if you air up regularly in a humid condition without a dryer. That said, there is still a very high humidity rate going into the tire without a dryer, thus the air quality isn't pure which can have minor impact on tire overall performance.
#14
I’ve got 5,000 miles on my ‘18 with nitrogen filled tires. My pressures range from 33 cold to 38 hot.
nitrogen makes no difference in the fluctuation for my real world driving. What nitrogen does seem to help with is my pressures not dropping below 33.
nitrogen makes no difference in the fluctuation for my real world driving. What nitrogen does seem to help with is my pressures not dropping below 33.
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#18
Remember the Hindenburg! :-(
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#27
Just make real sure you tell the tire change people about what you've done, otherwise they may have to retrieve your tires from the ceiling if they let go of them upon removal. I've seen this happen, and it gets real ugly.
#28
weight reduction is a legitimate way to get more performance from your Max. Everyone talks horsepower but that's just one half the equation. Of course, you'll need a lot more helium than you can fit in them tires
#30
Compressing helium REDUCES lifting power. So like does a tank of helium float in the air? Of course it does. In the Dollar Store, why do you think those helium tanks are tied down with huge concrete blocks? Gawd, thinking silly like this get politics off my mind. Fun to do for awhile and keeps the brain cells active. All in good fun.
#32
<<Also I believe Helium is used as a leak detector as the molecule is very small and will find ways to leak out.>>
Spot on, coming from a chemical engineer. No, I would definitely not want He in my tires for precisely this reason.
Spot on, coming from a chemical engineer. No, I would definitely not want He in my tires for precisely this reason.
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