The two tires on the front are constantly leaking air. If I will rotate them, the two on the back (formerly front tires) will stop leaking and the two on the front (formerly rear tires) will start leaking. This is going on at the same rate for a couple years. I thought of getting steelies and keeping the rubber. Will it solve the problem? Currently I have stock rims that came with the car (13 YO).

 

Have a tire shop take them off and remount them...

They are most likely leaking around the bead [where the rim and tire meet]

 

I had the same problem. As the prevous post said it is probably the bead. I has mine remounted and it looks like the put some black stuff around the bead area. The reason it happens only on the front is beasue of the side load differences from front to rear. I also notice this problem more in the winter than summer. Wayne

 

I was actually thinking of thermal expansion and contraction rates causing it.
I had an 86 cavalier that decided to let all of the air out of the tire one winter morning AFTER I got to work. same car did it to my brother as he was making a turn.

BTW the black tire stuff helps seal the bead, I use it quite liberally when I mount tires that need to hold air

 

of course why bother using it on the ones that don't need to hold air

 

Take it to a shop and get them to reseal it, and be sure they use bead sealer (the black goo). I bet that will solve your problem.

 

Yup... get them to dismount the tires and wire brush your wheels really well to get all the corrosion off of them. That should take care of your leaking problem.

 

Could tire pressure go up in relation to weather? I know pressure will rise after driving, but what about when it rises when you know you had 29 psi all around the morning before, but didn't drive, and this morning it decided to be 31 psi on some tires because it was a bit colder? Im pretty sure the gauge is workin all right

 

cold would cause tire pressure to drop not go up.

 

Yeah, I probably mixed up.. So it can right? Interesting...

 

a rise in temperature will cause a tire to go up in pressure slightly, but you're only looking at 1-2-3 psi over a seasonal change in temp. driving temps on the other hand can make them vary significantly more. i.e. start at 45psi cold on my track tires and they were at 63psi when hot.

 

Quite a difference.

 

maybe your valve stem is leaking....... if it is leaking like 20 PSI over a few days.. get soe soapy water and spray it all over the tire, and where it bubbles up is where your leak is....

 

This is a slim chance, but I had the same problem with my '92 SE-R on the rear driver side tire. It didn't matter what tie type or which of the 4 tires were mounted, it always had a slow leak. The other strange thing that happend when the tread was nearly bald I would notice an inside wear line. At the time I didn't think much of it because it was only noticeable when the tread was nearly gone. I had the alignment check several times. It wasn't until a buddy of mine moved into the world of alignment that I found out my car was slightly off; in spec according to the book, but still off. He aligned the car properly and I never had the problem again. Have you checked for ever so slight, but abnormal wear?

---JET_MMPro

 

So your saying abnormal wear can cause a leak?

 

The problem like everyone has been posting is a bead leak. I work at a tire store and Maxima's with stock wheels always have corosion around the lip of the wheels. It's pretty simple to fix. Have them clean it up, apply some bead sealer, replace the valves, and you should be good to go.

But this is the advice everyone else gave too. Hopefully you got it fixed.