Nitrogen In Your Tires?

[charlestonsc]

Has anyone don this? What are the pros/cons?

 

Thanks

[Bish]

Has anyone don this? What are the pros/cons?

 

Thanks

 

First, the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen.

 

Second, even if they fill with 100% nitrogen, there is still some regular air in there.

 

Pros - Supposed to keep tire pressure more constant over temp changes.

- Oxygen molecules can pass through rubber and lower pressure over time

 

Con - cost and what if you need air and you can't get nitrogen?

 

IMO there is a benefit for race cars but minimal for daily drivers. If you check your pressure with any regularity, no point in nitrogen.

[csheatz]

its all a load of BS for places that use it to get you come back and pay them for every little thing. Like already stated the air around us is 78% nitrogen.

[merlin5577]

Has anyone don this? What are the pros/cons?

 

Thanks

 

First, the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen.

 

Second, even if they fill with 100% nitrogen, there is still some regular air in there.

 

Pros - Supposed to keep tire pressure more constant over temp changes.

- Oxygen molecules can pass through rubber and lower pressure over time

 

Con - cost and what if you need air and you can't get nitrogen?

 

IMO there is a benefit for race cars but minimal for daily drivers. If you check your pressure with any regularity, no point in nitrogen.

 

 

+1. But if the shop offers to do it for free, go for it. If they are going to charge you, skip it.

[C & A s Dad]

Has anyone don this? What are the pros/cons?

 

Thanks

 

First, the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen.

 

Second, even if they fill with 100% nitrogen, there is still some regular air in there.

 

Pros - Supposed to keep tire pressure more constant over temp changes.

- Oxygen molecules can pass through rubber and lower pressure over time

 

Con - cost and what if you need air and you can't get nitrogen?

 

IMO there is a benefit for race cars but minimal for daily drivers. If you check your pressure with any regularity, no point in nitrogen.

 

 

 

Well said and we even sell the equipment that the Tire Stores use to produce the nitrogen.

 

IMO, it is an "add on" to increase the ticket average and remove $s from your wallet just like many things that are presented to you today when you are making a purchase decision. i.e "Would you like to super size that value meal for only .89 cents?" "Would you be interested in adding our Extended Service Plan to your new washing machine?" The terminology in the Retail World is "Gaining Greater Share of the Customer's Wallet.

[merlin5577]

Has anyone don this? What are the pros/cons?

 

Thanks

 

First, the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen.

 

Second, even if they fill with 100% nitrogen, there is still some regular air in there.

 

Pros - Supposed to keep tire pressure more constant over temp changes.

- Oxygen molecules can pass through rubber and lower pressure over time

 

Con - cost and what if you need air and you can't get nitrogen?

 

IMO there is a benefit for race cars but minimal for daily drivers. If you check your pressure with any regularity, no point in nitrogen.

 

 

 

Well said and we even sell the equipment that the Tire Stores use to produce the nitrogen.

 

IMO, it is an "add on" to increase the ticket average and remove $s from your wallet just like many things that are presented to you today when you are making a purchase decision. i.e "Would you like to super size that value meal for only .89 cents?" "Would you be interested in adding our Extended Service Plan to your new washing machine?" The terminology in the Retail World is "Gaining Greater Share of the Customer's Wallet.

 

Well said.

[bigbengalbubba]

I just got new tires yesterday and the place I got them uses nitrogen inflation. It's part of the price and no their tires are not more expensive than others. I shopped around. I don't know how much benefit there is but you can top off with regular air if needed. As stated before there's not much difference really.

[DofD]

Last year when I got new tires (from Costco), they came filled with nitrogen for no extra charge and the overall price was cheaper than other places for the same tires. As any benefits, hard to say, but the tires have held their pressure really well. Nitrogen is lighter than oxygen, but I doubt the amounts involved would show any real weight difference. Nitrogen also wouldn't act as an oxidizer to the tire compounds. Also after doing some reading, the main benefits to nitrogen is that a nitrogen filled tire maintains a more constant pressure in cold and hot running conditions.

[pennzoil29]

Has anyone don this? What are the pros/cons?

 

Thanks

 

First, the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen.

 

Second, even if they fill with 100% nitrogen, there is still some regular air in there.

 

Pros - Supposed to keep tire pressure more constant over temp changes.

- Oxygen molecules can pass through rubber and lower pressure over time

 

Con - cost and what if you need air and you can't get nitrogen?

 

IMO there is a benefit for race cars but minimal for daily drivers. If you check your pressure with any regularity, no point in nitrogen.

 

 

+1

[csheatz]

Still waiting for someone to take it to the next level and offer neon gas tire inflation!

[Norseman]

Still waiting for someone to take it to the next level and offer neon gas tire inflation!

 

 

Why so your tires start to glow when they warm up?

 

[DofD]

Hey that could work! Have a clear tire filled with neon and then an electrical current through the tire to energize the neon. Bam, glowing tires. Or one could go for wheels like these

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[saxdogg]

nitro tires are ghey

[DofD]

nitro tires are ghey

 

And wouldn't last very long with either a boom or a shatter.

[Bish]

Well said and we even sell the equipment that the Tire Stores use to produce the nitrogen.

 

 

I don't think they actually produce nitrogen. I believe they somehow filter everything else out of the air we breath. I saw one Ingersoll Rand makes as I'm a big IR distributor(not big box). It was a pretty cool machine but basically useless for daily drivers except to lighten their wallets