At time of purchase my tires were nitrogen. I went to get toped iff a couple months ago as weather was changing and pressure was down. Took it to the dealer as wanted to keep the nitro. Service person said it would coat money and went to ask how much. Guy fills. Lady comes back and says nitro machine broken. So I asked her how the guy she just spoke to filled it then and she said oh, I guess he didn’t here me. I was mad because she didn’t listen and I suspect just told him to fill them and never intended to put nitro in. Maybe too much trouble? Anyway. Yesterday I told then if they needed to ad to tires do it with nitro. But mainly because that is what was in there to start. I really know nothing about why one uses nitro in the first place. Any thoughts?
this has been covered many time, if you can get nitro for free then go for it, otherwise use regular air (it's already 78% nitrogen).
Nitrogen is great for aircrafts, heavy equipment and auto racing.
Regular air is 78% nitrogen anyhow. It's fine for filling tires. Really, using pure nitrogen is just a way for shops to make more money. For regular vehicle use, air is just fine.
In all seriousness, gifto, nitrogen is good, and DRY air is good. If the shop is using untreated tank air that's undesirable. Not because tank air is necessarily bad, but a neglected one is.
Hmm. I usually air my own tires with a compressor I have in the garage.
It has a drain for the little bit of water it emits. I think compressing the air causes water to condense out of it.
I'll guess only some of the water condenses out. Something like that.
All of that Nitro stuff was just marketing thing IMHO. Don't hear much about it anymore.
As far as @Sradiator's Designer choice of Lavender is is just "so yesterday". Unicorn Farts is in fashion right now.
Nitro has some advantages but they’re overstated.
If you check your pressures regularly and top off with any pump (I use a portable 12v one) you’re fine.
I have yet to see any alloy rim corrode on the inside due to water in the air used to fill. Even on 30 year old GM cars that only ever had air.
Hi, Nitrogen is used because it doesn't change pressure when tempatures change. Which is why rece cars use it. Makes for less tire pressure adjustments during a race.
Use air or cow it's free or cheap. If you race then use nitrogen, if not buy a 15 Dollar compressor and use air.
The Popular Mechanics article is also 78% wrong. Though the tire is less permeable to N2 than O2, it is not immune to the gas pressure law. So its pressure does not change less with temperature using nitrogen compared to air. There is no good reason to use dry nitrogen in a passenger care tire except "It's all we had".
The Popular Mechanics article is also 78% wrong. Though the tire is less permeable to N2 than O2, it is not immune to the gas pressure law. So its pressure does not change less with temperature using nitrogen compared to air. There is no good reason to use dry nitrogen in a passenger care tire except "It's all we had".
PV=nRT, is the ideal gas law. It doesn't apply to all gases. I didn't look up N2 vs O2, buts it's totally conceivable that its pressure changes less with temperature than O2
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