Nitrogen for Tires - Page 3

mjw357 · 05-06-2006, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ridley

Exactly like I said, and exactly like the article on treehuggers says at the end: Nitrogen in tires is a scam.

Only a scam if you pay somebody $20 a tire to do it. Tire guy:"OK, we rotated your windshield wipers, calibrated your taillights, and flushed and refilled the nitrogen in your tires." Just be a smart consumer.
Main benefit (as you stated) is slower loss of gas from inside tire. If you check your tires regularly, there is no real benefit.

*Contra* · 05-06-2006, 07:15 PM

i use it in my paint ball Tank sometimes

oh also did you hear that guy say he went to get his oil changed at a "quicky place"

and got taken for a ride

he was told that his oil was BLACK because his engine was dirty and needed a SHAMPOO

so he paid an additional $39 for the shampoo as well as the original $29 for the oil change

**ArmyAviation** · 05-06-2006, 07:20 PM

i only use nitrogen in aircraft tires because nitrogen doesnt expand at altitude

Ridley · 05-06-2006, 11:26 PM

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Main benefit (as you stated) is slower loss of gas from inside tire

Actually, thats BS, and I said so in an earlier post. Oxygen diffuses more slowly through the tire than nitrogen because it hase a larger molecule size. The trace gases, as stated earlier, are insignificant. A few degrees in temperature has a much greater effect on pressure than having ALL the trace gases leak out(which will never happen anyways).

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i only use nitrogen in aircraft tires because nitrogen doesnt expand at altitude

Again, thats false. Check your Universal gas laws and you wil see you are wrong. See my previous post about why aircraft use nitrogen from "experts".

The one, AND ONLY advantage to nitrogen is it's dry. Air from an air compressor may or may not be, depending on how big of a pile it is. Having said that, you could put the wettest air you can muster in your tires and you are not gonna see a damn bit of difference. This subject is ridiculous and clouded with a bunch of BS and mindless lemmings, and I'm finished with it. If you are thinking of spending even a dime on this ridiculousness, take that money and feed a hungry child from ethiopia or something and do the world a favor instead of throwing it out the window.

If it's free it's free, but that doesn't make any difference to it's insignificance. Using that as selling point has about as much to do with the quality of service as when your tire "expert" took a **** last and whether or not he wiped with his left hand or his right.