TeeJay1952
Golden Member
Belle Tires in Metro Detroit is making a big deal about Nitrogen fill for tires. Anyone know anything about this proccess?
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Nitronize tires
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thomsbrain
Lifer
i'm pretty sure costco fills their new tires with nitrogen, actually. i'm not sure what the point is.
There are a few points of advantage for nitrogen:
1. Nitrogen leaks out of tires more slowly than air, so you need to check it less often.
2. Nitrogen (when dispensed from proper containers) is dry, so it expands less with heat. This is a HUGE deal when using heat sensitive tires, like many DOT-R tires. For instance, the Pirelli P-Zero Corsa tend to chunk the tread when temperatures push pressures above 36 psi.
3. Nitrogen doesn't leach the moisture from the rubber in your tires, so tire sidewalls tend not to dry & crack as easily.
#1 is no big deal if you are good about checking inflation.
#2 is no big deal if you use dry air (which some gas stations carry), or if you don't use your tires hard.
#3 is an extremely minor point.
Other issues:
1. To get the benefit, you'd have to push all of the air out of your tires before refilling.
2. Not all stations that carry nitrogen carry pure nitrogen
One more thing:
Be sure to laugh at all of the people who say nitrogen doesn't do anything because air is made up of mostly nitrogen. Talk about huge (and incorrect) logical leap.
1. Nitrogen leaks out of tires more slowly than air, so you need to check it less often.
2. Nitrogen (when dispensed from proper containers) is dry, so it expands less with heat. This is a HUGE deal when using heat sensitive tires, like many DOT-R tires. For instance, the Pirelli P-Zero Corsa tend to chunk the tread when temperatures push pressures above 36 psi.
3. Nitrogen doesn't leach the moisture from the rubber in your tires, so tire sidewalls tend not to dry & crack as easily.
#1 is no big deal if you are good about checking inflation.
#2 is no big deal if you use dry air (which some gas stations carry), or if you don't use your tires hard.
#3 is an extremely minor point.
Other issues:
1. To get the benefit, you'd have to push all of the air out of your tires before refilling.
2. Not all stations that carry nitrogen carry pure nitrogen
One more thing:
Be sure to laugh at all of the people who say nitrogen doesn't do anything because air is made up of mostly nitrogen. Talk about huge (and incorrect) logical leap.
Unless you're an Indy or Nascar racer, or own a fast/large/high flying jet, Nitrogen isn't worth messing with and you might not notice any difference. My dad flies different planes, including a small jet, and they don't even use it. Larger/faster/higher flying business jets and airlines might, or military.
mayonnaise
Senior member
Just incase you missed it the first two times.
Profit for work ratio = meh, so forget it 😛
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